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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
No, it's pretty clear cherry-picking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_picking_(fallacy)
Cherry picking, suppressing evidence, or the fallacy of incomplete evidence is the act of pointing to individual cases or data that seem to confirm a particular position, while ignoring a significant portion of related cases or data that may contradict that position. It is a kind of fallacy of selective attention, the most common example of which is the confirmation bias. Cherry picking may be committed unintentionally.

The term is based on the perceived process of harvesting fruit, such as cherries. The picker would be expected to only select the ripest and healthiest fruits. An observer who only sees the selected fruit may thus wrongly conclude that most, or even all, of the fruit is in such good condition.
To your point anyway, Europe doesn't appear to be quite as important to Windows Phone as you make it out to be:
http://bgr.com/2012/12/04/windows-ph...rging-markets/

Anyway, here's a little something to lighten the mood:
so you are prooving my cherrypickiness by cherrypicking a biased article you have to do better than that old boy.

If the user base of WP is largest in Europe, then clearly most WP sales are done there and not some other desolate place. You cannot argue that WP is large in Europe by arguing that WP is small in Europe. It makes no sense.
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