Technology

iPhone SIM card plan thwarted…

This looks like classic Apple…

“A senior source at a mobile operator said: “Apple has long been trying to build closer and closer relationships and cut out the operators. But this time they have been sent back to the drawing board with their tails between their legs.”

Apple’s iPhone SIM card plan thwarted – Telegraph

I’ll translate it for you.

– A senior source with a large ego has bragged to a journalist friend that he got one over Apple.

– Apple had a meeting with a senior executive at a mobile operator where the executive pounded his fist on the table and said “I’ll never accept that on my network”.

– Apple left the room without comment and struck the mobile operator from their plans and carried on regardless.

What’s in this for you?

Executive probably works at Vodafone or O2. Sell your shares!

Apple’s not playing the same game as the others and the operators haven’t understood that yet.

LFC

The French revolution…

So one country has a plan of action, the other has hidden from reality. The results are predictable…

“They have taken divergent paths since the World Cup, France making a clean break with the past by installing Laurent Blanc and England sticking with Fabio Capello in the hope he could divine the lessons of Bloemfontein. Blanc dispensed with all but one of his backroom staff and hired a psychologist to improve team harmony, whereas Capello’s only concession to change was a promise to employ another English coach who has yet to emerge.”

The French revolution is working, England’s is a work in progress | Football | The Guardian

Technology

Hard-Coding Bias in Google…

Hard-Coding Bias in Google “Algorithmic” Search Results

This is very interesting. It seems that they’re playing with the figures more than I ever imagined.

The comma trick is great; I’ll remember that.

Random thoughts…