Delicious LiveJournal Links for 11-9-2009

[andrewducker]

• Nokia shipped more than double Apple's smartphones last year.
  RIM in second place, Apple in third.
  (tags: apple nokia phones)
• Tough love is good for children
  It found that children from the richest backgrounds were more than twice as likely to develop the key characteristics compared to those with the poorest origins.
  
  Additionally, children whose parents were married were twice as likely to show such traits than children from lone parent or step-parented families, the report said.
  
  But it added that when parental style and confidence were factored in, the difference in child character development between richer and poorer families disappeared.
  (tags: psychology bbc children)

Comments

[johncoxon.livejournal.com]

The first statistic would be much more interesting when compared to the stats (after two years' sales) of other companies that, with no prior experience in a market, entered a product into that market. I suspect that Apple is performing _well_ ahead of the average new competitor.