Apple: iPhones outsold BlackBerrys in last quarter

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Apple: iPhones outsold BlackBerrys in last quarter

from cbc.news.ca

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/10/22/apple-3q.html

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What is the news story about?

The title of this article states very clearly that Apple Inc's latest product, the iPhone has outsold Research in Motion (RIM), a competitor's product called the BlackBerry in last quarter's performance.  

What is its significance?

In this article, it states that Apple was surprised that they were able to outsell Research in Motion in the smartphone market, since Apple has done very well with its iPod mp3 player in the music player market and is relatively new to the smartphone market. Basically, the significance of this article is stating that Apple Inc is doing spectacularly well, even outdoing another leading company by successfully selling millions of its 3G iPhones in the last quarter time.

Bias?

I think this article is written more in favour towards the Apple's side even though it provides proper statistics from Apple and from RIM. I think the most biased are the quotes that are in this article. Take this quote for example, 'Overtaking RIM in such a short time is a "tremondous accomplishment' said Edward Jones analyst Bill Kreher. This quote is biased, since it's putting Apple Inc in such a good spot. 

Debate Continuation: Is a car living or non-living?

If you look at my previous posts, I have already laid out my facts and which side I am on. And to continue the debate we started in class about whether a car is living or not, the argument of evolution of life came up.

The evolution of life; here's my definition. The evolution of life began with prokaryote organisms then to what we have now on Earth with ever growing organisms, having evolved. It's a big ginormous timeline of Earth.

Living things, when they evolve, they pass on traits that are helpful in their survival. So their evolved life form will possess the good traits in their generation. And that's what living things are capable of doing! Non-living things can't pass on these traits through reproduction and noo, the car in the factory argument does not work out. What happens in a reproduction is two different sets of genetic information coming together to form one.

And about the bee with the flower when the topic of reproduction came up; concerning that, a bee does not provide the genetic information! Another flower does. All a bee does is help carry the pollen to another flower. The bee acts as an assisting reproductive helper, basically not directly part of the reproduction process for flowers. So I do not believe that the bee with flower example can clarify that a car is in fact living but rather my belief that it is non-living.