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Published Monday 12th May 2008 16:45 GMT

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Hmmm, wonder where they got that idea from? 

By Ben
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 19:04 GMT
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...perhaps from their code inspection of OpenLaszlo when they were "thinking" of buying...

...I've heard that Adobe did the same and then produced Flex. It's a tough old world.

Oh great... 

By Anonymous Hero
Posted Monday 12th May 2008 19:53 GMT
Paris Hilton

Another sodding browser plug-in to allow arty farty web designers to abuse my senses with more unwanted noise and browser pollution.

And even worse there'll be yet another heap of in-house badly thought out controls that behave in totally alien ways....like those nasty flash scroll bars that start scrolling text as soon as you look at the buttons. Yuk....

Paris, 'cos even she knows when there's one plug-in too many.

the iPhone... 

By Jasmine Strong
Posted Tuesday 13th May 2008 01:12 GMT

Number of iPhones shipped to date / Total smartphones shipped to date ~= 0

'Virtually all" is a reasonable assertion. iPhone's going nowhere in most markets.

Insignificant iPhone 

By Crass Pip
Posted Wednesday 14th May 2008 22:09 GMT

@Jasmine Strong

"How did the iPhone stack up against the competition during Q4 [2007]? Very well! Research firm Canalys says Apple (AAPL) accounted for 6.5% of the global smartphone market... But Apple's performance was especially impressive considering it was only available in four countries -- the U.S., U.K., France, and Germany -- through one carrier each."

http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/2/apples_pretty_useless_iphone_takes_3nd_place_in_q4_aapl

Now iPhone has entered many new markets, has an SDK for third party apps (with over 200k downloads and this year's developer conference sold out for the first time ever), and a new 3G phone coming within 60 days. Care to guess again?

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