You omitted "I suspect " from the quote you are using.

The correct quote is:
... my understanding of a bell curve is that it represents the normal distribution of a trait within a population. In this case the trait would be the occurrence of sales over time and not overall sales volume. The market we were talking about was North America and not world wide.
Of course the iPhone has outsold the RZR but I'm not comparing overall sales. Perhaps what you are fixating on is my use of the term "sales window closing". I'm not saying that to indicate sales are over for either phone, rather that in both cases sales rates are no longer increasing and the mean rate of sales has been established in the North American market.

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My happiness is not regulated by what you choose to post. However my reply was not a rebuttal to one of your posts so your desire to find "me soooo wrong and so ignorant" without even asking for clarification indicates to me that you have some unresolved issue. Entertaining the notion to poke fun at some one in a public forum is kind of childish don't you think? << (purely rhetorical... at this point I really don't care what you think on this subject.)

Although I don't argue that we Americans are often like lemmings running over the cliff after what is perceived as the newest and best, I strongly disagree that xenophobia has much of anything to do with it. Don't base your opinion of Americans on comments made by our celebrities in the foreign press or through repeated viewings of the documentary "Supersize Me". Besides, I like McDonalds! Sometimes.

The "buy American" movement doesn't tend to extend too far into electronics. There is a general feeling that that battle was fought and lost long ago!

Sad news about Nokia though. I really like playing with my co-workers' iPhones but I don't want them to dominate. I want free enterprise!