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There's so e serious irony there if those are the numbers, given that that's what the merchants are supposed to be doing.


FWIW, clicking on that link with Safari showed an unexpected popup: "WebProcess wants to sign using key "Apple ID Authentication [timestamp] in your keychain". Using some sort of client cert for SSL? I didn't find an obvious reason for the interaction.


Ranking multiple measures in a stack of stars/circles without labeled 'better / worse' margins seems like a pretty terrible data visualization.


I did that too. Weird.


I'm glad to see Jawbone going for broke on the 'health and wellness via data' front. I've been a fan of their design language and technical chops since back when their headsets had wires.


Jawbone is making some innovative products. I think they have the opportunity to make some interesting breakthroughs in HCI.


So will FB (eventually) make a timeline post on my behalf when I buy coffee?


My wife has been 1k for the last several years. Before we met I had no concept of mileage programs but traveling with her has really opened my eyes.

The funny part is at some point it feels a bit like playing a Zynga game, including the occasional "screw it, I'm so close I'll pay a little cash to bump up to the next level"


Global Services >>> 1K.


Both in terms of perks and barrier to entry, alas.


The folks who strolled in earlier might have more status (miles/revenue) on this airline, and having that means a great deal to the airline's systems and humans. They know what you're worth to the company and whether it's worth bumping someone else lower on the totem. It doesn't feel good but it's generally pretty rational.


So rational, in fact, that I will do all I can to avoid flying this specific airline.


Losing customers in an overbook situation is not a faikure mode.


Nitpicking, but on my Safari 6 this page doesn't render properly because I have 'Default' encoding selected. The page is authored as UTF-8 but doesn't declare that in the content-type header, doctype, or a meta tag.


Thanks, always forget about this one. Fixed.


I'm surprised by the large skew towards CDMA vs GSM for iPhone 5 devices. Verizon winning converts from AT&T?


No, Verizon, AT&T and Sprint all broke out iPhone sales in their recent quarterly reports. Verizon + Sprint didn't outsell AT&T on total iPhones, so it would make no sense for them to be winning iPhone 5 converts fast enough to create this sort of version skew. Instead, I think we're seeing an artifact of how the models are reported.

If you look at Apple's iPhone 5 specification page ( http://support.apple.com/kb/SP655 ), you'll see that the CDMA iPhone 5 and the non-US GSM iPhone 5 have the same model number. That says to me that they are probably reported together in this sort of device breakdown (and may well even be almost the same phone under-the-covers modulo some configuration bits). In other words, the iPhone 5 on almost everyone but AT&T is massively outselling the iPhone 5 on AT&T, which seems much more reasonable.


There are two model numbers; you are confused by that breakdown as both models cover basic GSM: the difference is only in the LTE bands that each device supports.


On Apple's spec page I'm seeing "CDMA model A1429" and "GSM model A1429" (vs "GSM model A1428" for AT&T). I'll agree that the first two are different model names, but they look like the same model number ("A1429") to me. That's why I suspect the differences between the two devices are smaller than we might ordinarily expect (possibly including smaller identification differences).

Do the two A1429 models actually show up differently in this sort of breakdown (presumably with "GSM model A1429" as iPhone 5,3)?


You win this round (edit: maybe). I thought there were only two models:

1) A1429: Verizon. supports GSM (basic), CDMA (basic + LTE)

2) A1428: AT&T. supports GSM (basic), GSM (LTE)

However, there really are three. (edit: Or not. I've been asking around and there are mixed opinions. We generally care deeply, being those crazy jailbreak people, but we haven't gotten to that stage on the 5 yet.)

I can then say that there are only two device names: iPhone5,1 and iPhone5,2, so yeah: normal ways to differentiate them won't work, you'd have to do something special.


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