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MSBBC Lies About Microsoft Market Share

Before cleansing

Voroshilov, Molotov, Stalin, with Nikolai Yezhov



After cleansing

The Commissar Vanishes



Summary: BBC bias as shown clearly by Homer from slated.org

LIES can be made true in the minds if repeated often enough, especially by sources of authority like the Microsoft- and Gates-controlled BBC. Homer has noticed something rather disturbing in an article we saw last week. It speaks of the dying breed which is Windows phones in relation to Microsoft's new phone litigation department. Here is how Homer puts it:



The BBC, which has been Microsoft's UK propaganda division since 2006, recently aired a programme that declares Nokia's Symbian OS is "not long for this world" because, according to BBC reporter Marc Cieslak, the market is allegedly "dominated" by, amongst other platforms, Windows Phone.
“While its camera is impressive, Nokia's choice of operating system is less so. The 808 is powered by Nokia's Symbian OS, an operating system that, in a landscape dominated by iOS, Android and even Windows Phone devices, is not long for this world.”
Exactly in what sense could Windows Phone, a platform with just a 1.9% global market share, be said to "dominate"?

Cieslak also "forgot" to mention that Symbian OS, which he alleges is "not long for this world", has a global market share of 11.7%, more than six times greater than Windows Phone, and yet apparently Windows Phone is worthy of being categorised as "dominant", in Cieslak's biased opinion, yet Symbian OS isn't.


Small lies along the way (or micro-lies) help reinforce lies. The BBC should correct this, just like it removes mentioning of the term "open source" after publication. ⬆

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