The Macalope Weekly: Incomplete data
There are lots of ways to react when you don’t have complete data. Acknowledging the gaps and making best guesses about them is probably the best. Which is exactly what these three pundits seem incapable of doing. Our first two decide that the data in question simply doesn’t exist, while the third is VERY ANGRY ABOUT NOT HAVING IT.
Horror story
Prepare yourself, Appleista, because the New York Times’s Brian X. Chen brings us the tale of how “Samsung May Have Passed Apple in U.S.—for Now.”
You swirl. You swoon. You feel the Earth dropping away from you. All that your Apple-loving mind can do is reel from the impact of the news that Samsung has beaten Apple on its home turf. Canaccord Genuity’s Michael Walkley has turned your world upside down.
Samsung Electronics may have surpassed Apple to become the top smartphone maker in the United States in May, according to an analyst’s report. Sales of Samsung’s new flagship phone, the Galaxy S4, combined with its bigger-screen Galaxy Note II and the older Galaxy S III, lifted Samsung’s sales above Apple’s last month, the report said.
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