Jacob Christensen

Observation: The US and UK internet Apple Stores are out of iPhones.

Interpretation #1: Apple is emptying stocks in order to prepare the presentation of a 3G iPhone.

Interpretation #2: Apple has underestimated demand for the existing line of iPhones in the US and UK.

I haven’t got the slightest idea – I just found the differing interpretations interesting. More often than not, you need a lot of circumstantial evidence to interpret an observation. And in any event, there are no signs that the iPhone is coming to Sweden or Denmark in the near future, but if The Steve suddenly appears in either Stockholm or Copenhagen, that would send the local rumour mills into intergalactic overdrive.

Blogger Kathy G. reminds me why a) the term “First Lady” annoys me and why b) Danish media’s use of the term “First Lady”¹ in a desperate attempt to make Danish politics look American annoys me.

1. F�rstedame in Danish. In case you wondered [↩]

• CES – The Nordic Model: Solutions for Continental Europe’s Problems?
  A common view among critics of the large EU countries� social policy and labor market institutions is that the economic inefficiency and social inequity they ascribe to those institutions can be remedied by transforming them in the direction of the Nord
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I promised myself that this should not turn into yet another US Presidential Elections Blawg, but when Matthew Shugart posted this piece about a – uhm – factual mistake made by a Clinton advisor …

Well, all I can say is:

What. The. H�%k?!?