Lying with pictures - Nokia, RIM and Microsoft more fucked than they looked

As steer and drplokta pointed out yesterday, the Nielsen diagram was grossly out of proportion, so it looked like RIM and MS were better than they were.

I passed the data to steer, who then played around with R (code is in the other post), and produced the second diagram. I've tried to line them up and proportion them with each other as best as I can. So you can now easily see how misrepresentative the original diagram was!

Edit:
Also - an even better one made by http://9to5mac.com/2012/07/13/nielsen-needs-to-work-on-their-graphics/

Interesting Links for 15-07-2012

• Supervising Women Workers: United States Office of Education Training Film (1944)
  (tags: video work history women )
• I’ve Never Meta-Pizza I Didn’t Like
  (tags: viaOctopoidHorror food pizza )
• No-fault divorce was staggeringly good for women.
  (tags: women law divorce )
• Q: Why Do We Wear Pants? A: Horses
  (tags: clothes horses )

Not the most streamlined purchasing experience

Ages ago I discovered Smucker's Sugar-Free Jam. Which was awesome, because it didn't use maltitol, or any other sugar alcohol as a sugar replacement (they tend to give me an unhappy stomach), but instead used splenda, which doesn't seem to give me any negative side-effects at all.

Sadly, all of the places that imported it from the USA have stopped doing so, and nobody in the UK seems to be producing splenda-based jams.

Which is how I ended up buying Jon 'n Al's sugar-free jam. From New Zealand. Which, firstly, have the oldest looking website I've seen in quite some time, and secondly were being sold through Avidlite, who also have an ancient-looking website.

And when I actually bought what I wanted, it took me through a partner site (Sagepay, who seem to be part of the same Sage who do accounts packages, and were willing to let me pay by Visa, American Express, Paypal, etc.), and _then_ on to Paypal. So I got a receipt from Paypal telling me I'd paid, then from Sage, and then from Avidlite themselves. Exactly why I need three emails to let me know I successfully paid for something I do not know.

I'm sure the future was supposed to be better than this.