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I wrote the underlying article - thanks for catching that I wasn't using 2007/iPhone as the timeline base. The 2002 date was when I was saying smart phones reached general consumer…

I wrote the original blog post about Teslas bricking. This IDC/IDG post is embarrassingly wrong about basically everything. The cars are most definitely not "just in need of servic…

That's every Samsung phone released in the US through mid-2010. I do intend to keep at it and add more. (& yes, Motorola does appear to be particularly bad)

You might be right re it gets better - though not as sure about the ICS bit. It is my intention to keep at it & add (ideally) every phone.

I agree they're maybe not essential to a lot of consumers. Lord knows most people never thought about whether their dumbphone's OS was outdated or not, but I do think it's less tha…

Concur. Similarly, general consensus seems to be that the skins actively hold things up because manufacturers have to port them to each new OS on each device. It'll be interesting …

Unfortunately I suspect you're right.

Yes, it's 7 that were "never" and 5 more that were "weeks", so 12 total that were "weeks or less". I struggled with that phrasing a bit - either way seemed wrong.

No, the original iPhone & 3G don't support iOS 5. But they did support the current version of iOS for 3 years after they were released - far more than any Android phones of the per…

Very much so - I made a note or two re extension & non-US at the end of the post. Definitely my intention.

I actually had letters on there ("E", "F") etc for releases but on top of the sales windows & the support windows it was just too much on one chart. I do plan to provide all that i…

I actually originally started doing it that way, but thought it was more relevant vis a vis release date than calendar date. I do intend to include that when I finish doing all of …

I wrote the piece / did the research. Happy to answer any questions or comments people might have.

(Disclosure: I did the understatement.com piece) I agree with many of the points people are making (there are some differences, there are many Helvetica/etc based fonts, etc). Real…

Haha well said (& well done).

Here's an animation/toggle I did comparing Roboto & Helvetica: http://und.st/pqCj4I . In the lowercase, there are only 5 letters (a, e, f, g, k) that a normal person would have muc…

Indeed. And Susan Wojcicki has also come to life (after only making one public post ever back in August). :)

Actually, I agree that might have been a better title - would have avoided some of the controversy while making the same point. (And, fwiw, I don't have any ads or make any money o…

(I'm the author) Actually, I would tend to think that TV execs do watch their reality TV programs & even suspect Zynga execs have at least played a bit of Farmville, and certainly …

(I'm the author) That's a really good observation re the content of the founders' posts, especially Mr. Brin's.

(I'm the author). Your last point is very true, and the chart tries to make it very clear it's only talking about public posts. Obviously entirely true that they could be using it …