Delicious LiveJournal Links for 7-9-2010

[andrewducker]

• Nice house. Comes with attached multi-level 9,000sqft subterannean structure.
  (tags: house cool military)
• Study that 'solves' chronic fatigue syndrome blocked
  (tags: disease virus)
• May U.S. Mobile Market Share - Android up by 4%, still in fourth place (but likely to overtake MS soon)
  (tags: mobile_phones usa)
• The Origin Of Psychodrama
  (tags: drama emotion people)
• Why 7/7 could have been even worse - the bus explosion happened outside the BMA...
  (tags: london doctors uk terrorism)

Comments

[matgb]

Are there different definitions of smartphone for this sort of stat?

The above is US figures, but has Apple in 2nd place, but doesn't list Nokia, whereas that techcrunch post from the other day (Decoding Microsoft’s Fantastic Passive-Agressive Numbers Post) says Nokia outsell Apple in the Smartphone market 3:1.

Sales vs users, US vs global, but Nokia have been making what I'd consider smartphones for ages (my 5800 is an old model I got because it was bottom of the range now), and they're a big player in the US from what I can tell.

Are they for some reason excluded from those Comcast smartphone stats?

[andrewducker]

Nokia, so far as I can tell, doesn't exist in the US market. They refused to bow to carrier demands for branding, so you can't buy their phones easily through carriers and have to pay full price for them.

Worldwide, Nokia are massive.

[matgb]

Ah, that possibly explains the 8% share in the first figures compared to Samsung, who I'm sure sell phones over here but I'm not sure I've ever seen one.

Weird how different decisions cause weird distortions.