Interesting Links for 28-10-2011
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andrewducker- French government 'banning vegetarianism' in school canteens
- Wheat is EVIL. Apparently.
- Samuel L. Jackson Is the highest-grossing actor of all time.
- Sentencing laws: Mandatory life and public protection. A difficult balancing act
- Livejournal apparently having massive privacy/security issues right now.
- An explanation of the latest Livejournal security/privacy mess.
- Ex-Prime Minster's claim £1.7million for "public duties".
- Company makes children's toys out of their own drawings. Almost offensively cute.
- Google's latest response on pseudonyms on G+
- Google+ is now available with Google Apps (migration tool coming soon)
migration - Samsung overtakes Apple in smartphone sales. We'll see how they are once the 4S figures come in.
- How the new public sector pensions will work
- UK clocks change trial being considered - moving us onto Central European Time.
- Google Denies Requests To Remove Videos of Police Brutality
- Wired Readers Suggest The Greatest Geek Books of All Time. They are clearly old.
- Directors' pay rose 50% in past year.
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Date: 2011-10-28 04:55 pm (UTC)Depends what you mean by "market share". If you mean "the number of phones on the market" then units sold seems to be much better than the profit made on said units. And other than Apple or Samsung shareholders, I'm not sure why people would care who is making the most cash.
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:34 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2011-10-28 05:44 pm (UTC)I'm also interested by what phones people are using, in general, and the changing fortunes of the different operating systems, and that's connected.
My next phone _might_ be a Samsung one. But if it's not then it'll be an HTC, or a Sony Ericsson.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:02 pm (UTC)Well, no. I'd get an iPhone. But you know what I mean.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:33 pm (UTC)Heck, if I can manage to buy the phone outright and then just go sim-only then that would be perfect, but I'm not sure whether I'll have the cash up front to manage that in January. I'll see.
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Date: 2011-10-28 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2011-10-28 06:42 pm (UTC)Sure, Apple have more weight now - but they were already doing very well then.
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