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From: Bruce Horrocks on 12 May 2010 13:00
On 12/05/2010 13:49, D.M. Procida wrote:
> Bruce Horrocks<07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote:
>
>> On 12/05/2010 12:11, Peter Ceresole wrote:
>>> They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're
>>> levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff.
>>> Smells nice.
>>>
>>> One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He
>>> was using an iPhone.
>>>
>>> Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them
>>> to get that kind of penetration.
>>>
>>
>> Presumably he uses the GPS for navvy-gation?
>
> The poncey joss-stick-sniffing Perrier-breathed fashion-victim fanboi.

Perhaps that's not such a bad thing (from his pov, at least):

<http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15717198>

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From: Rowland McDonnell on 12 May 2010 14:40
D.M. Procida <real-not-anti-spam-address(a)apple-juice.co.uk> wrote:

> Bruce Horrocks <07.013(a)scorecrow.com> wrote:
>
> > Peter Ceresole wrote:
> > > They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're
> > > levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff.
> > > Smells nice.
> > >
> > > One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He
> > > was using an iPhone.
> > >
> > > Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them
> > > to get that kind of penetration.
> > >
> >
> > Presumably he uses the GPS for navvy-gation?
>
> The poncey joss-stick-sniffing Perrier-breathed fashion-victim fanboi.

I've long assumed that the `joss stick' and `Perrier' sets didn't
intersect much.

Fashion victims can be found almost anywhere.

Rowland.

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From: zoara on 12 May 2010 17:02
Peter Ceresole <peter(a)cara.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today;
> they're
> levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff.
> Smells nice.
>
> One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He
> was using an iPhone.
>
> Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of
> them
> to get that kind of penetration.
>

In the US, Android handset marketshare has just surpassed the iPhone's
marketshare.

Or is that what you were referring to?

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From: Peter Ceresole on 12 May 2010 17:10
zoara <me18(a)privacy.net> wrote:

> In the US, Android handset marketshare has just surpassed the iPhone's
> marketshare.
>
> Or is that what you were referring to?

Yup.
--
Peter
From: Sak Wathanasin on 14 May 2010 03:24
On 12 May, 12:11, pe...(a)cara.demon.co.uk (Peter Ceresole) wrote:
> They've changed the lamp posts in our street. Final stage today; they're
> levelling and tarmacing the trenches in the pavement. Black stuff.
> Smells nice.
>
> One of the chaps doing the wheelbarrow work took a work phone call. He
> was using an iPhone.
>
> Never mind the Androids, Apple really must have sold bazillions of them
> to get that kind of penetration.

Never mind navvies: when the BCS takes notice, you know Apple are
getting somewhere


http://www.bcs.org/server.php?show=conBlogPost.1631

(OK, it's not about iPhones or even about Apple, but there's a tacit
admission in there that Apple are on the right track.)
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