I did read http://learnyouahaskell.com/functors-applicative-functors-an... and found myself unsure if I had understood anything at all. (Not a reflection of this book - which I do agree is fabolous.)
And now am reading both (last 5 chapters) and this wiki in tandem.
You are sceptical that what he is doing good because it leads to overpopulation ?
I think you went a little too far in trying to prove your point. I understand that any of the startups in the OP's list are not paradigm changing. And I also admit that I too would have greater appreciation for someone who would 'dig a well' - that is get dirty at the grass root level of any social movement.
But this response to Bill Gate's immunization drive is either racist or social darwinism or both and I think thats wrong.
Every single child born should be immunized - we as a people have solved a very basic problem of human survival and no one should be denied that. And if you are really skeptical about overpopulation how about we selectively immunize children all over the world from a lottery system ?
Blackberry does not have the same end user as the iPhone. Blackberry's end users are corporations - its the default device that is shelled out to every single employee of large banks and consultancies. The 'Enterprise End User' thats what BB has to retain and capitalize on. RIM should look for synergies with other enterprise application providers. A cool looking twitter application is not the answer to their woes. Its seamless integration of a enterprise Yammer with the BB mailbox or an application that makes it easier to navigate ugly sharepoint sites.
That may be the strategy here - Symbian means the knowledge of building an OS that works for a wide range of models and specially lower end of cellular phones that rest of the world is catching up to.
I agree, after reading Fooled by Randomness, black swan was a let down, repetitive and ironically snobbish for a book thats about understanding the unknown