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They seem to spend a whole lot of time describing how Apple "launched a revolution", and very little on the key point in the headline which is that they've supposedly been "overtaken" (a couple of very vague and unenlightening closing paragraphs, along with a lazy and completely inappropriate comparison to the Apple II).

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The one fact in the article is the # of iPhones sold vs the total number of all phones sold last year. That is complete apples to oranges. Compare the # of iPhones sold to the # of Blackberries sold, possible some of the other high end phones as well. But I think you generally have super high end with Blackberry and iPhone, high end where you at least have a full keyboard and web browing, mid level which are "normal" cell phones, and low end which are just phone/texting.

I'd like to see sales numbers for RIM vs Apple.

It's also not just volume, Apple has an impressive margin on the iPhone and the other companies are selling commodity phones on paper thin margins, lets look at total profit and see why people are buying Apple stock and dumping Nokia & Motorola.

Yes, a straightforward case of link bait.

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