New podcast by Glenn (two “n”s) Fleishman (one “n”). Fail to subscribe at your own peril.

I’ve got a piece in this week’s edition of The Magazine. Is it humor or stunning insight?

Or is it a casserole recipe?

Anyone?

Alex Wilhelm:

At a rate of 40% wrong per 181 days, Windows Phone will have a total market share something around -330% by the end of 2016, and not the 11.4% that IDC claims to have seen in its crystal ball.

These firms must know their numbers are going to be wrong, right? It seems like these predictions are really just marketing. I have no idea how “Look at this crap we made up!” gets companies to pay for their market intelligence, but they keep doing it so I assume they’re getting something out of it other than our ridicule.

Interesting piece by the Verge’s Sam Byford about the tainted history of Samsung’s rise to power. Other than knowing the chaebols have a history of nepotism and payoffs, I was unaware of the details of Samsung’s nepotism and payoffs.

The most laughable commentary about Apple’s fight with Samsung is casting this giant conglomerate that probably mines the metals in its phones and TVs as some scrappy freedom fighter that we mean ol’ Apple fans should leave alone. I can certainly see how you might root against Apple. But I can’t see how  you would root for Samsung.

The Surface Pro will have half the battery life of the Surface RT, so about four hours.

Which isn’t that bad for a laptop. But add a Type Cover for $130 and the entry-level Surface Pro costs $30 more than a 64GB MacBook Air.

Coming in January. And for “64GB” read “48GB”. Or even less as I would expect Windows 8 Pro to take up more space than Windows RT. Also, I can’t believe the battery life is going to be great with an Intel i5 inside. Oh, and neither the Touch Cover nor the Type Cover is bundled with it, so tack on an extra $100+.

But other than that it sounds awesome.

I had said on MacBreak Weekly that I expected the Surface Pro to do better than the Surface RT but now I’m not so sure. The more I think about it, the less I think PC manufacturers have to worry about the Surface, at least right now.

I was on this week’s MacBreak Weekly where we discussed inappropriate uses for Google Glasses amongst other headier topics.

Zack Whittaker at ZDNet on an IDC report predicting the iPhone’s ascendance in the enterprise:

This is the tipping point. BlackBerry is on its way out as the business and enterprise gold standard in security and functionality, and the iPhone is heading in.

And this from a guy who declared the iPad “flawed from the start” and an “epic fail”.

Before it came out.

I made this point to a relative over the summer, though: if enterprises want something secure, modern and that represents a viable platform, the only choice is the iPhone. Enterprise IT shops come up with all kinds of crazy rationales for their purchases and they could always decide a choice of vendors is more important than security, but if they stick to what should be the more important criteria, iOS should benefit greatly. The only real question is if Apple’s prepared to make the most of that relationship.

For a good laugh, visit the comments where several people think BlackBerry is going to turn this around. Unless you don’t find people who are delusional to be funny.