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As you watched the hordes line up to buy the new iPhones — or merely to be photographed standing in line — one question might have been playing on your mind: how many of these people are currently in the House of Representatives?

This has been bothering me since Friday.

The House hasn’t exactly been a hive of action recently, so I can imagine that the politicos had plenty of time, should they be Apple fanpersons.

Now NBC’s David Gregory has revealed what a den of Apple enthusiasm the House of Representatives truly is.

Some 58 percent of the House of Representatives are iPhone owners. This is perhaps the most committed majority existing in modern politics.

Those in love with their Samsung Galaxys will be reeling from this information. They will, however, be convinced that there must be a radical segment of the House that is showing its Android fandom.

This is going to hurt, Androiders.

Your faction only has a 4 percent share of the House. That’s like the couple of wacko congresspeople that no one takes seriously.

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Each week Ross Rubin contributes Switched On, a column about consumer technology.

On September 2, Microsoft announced that it would pay $7.2 billion for Nokia’s handset business, including its smartphones and Asha phones aimed at consumers in developing economies. Key personnel from that business, including Nokia’s former CEO Stephen Elop, would be joining Microsoft, and Nokia would now be a company that focused on location technologies (via its Here services) and wireless infrastructure (via NSN, for which it had purchased Siemens’ share).

The move marked the exit of one of the most storied and, for many years, most successful mobile phone companies in history. It also marked Microsoft’s entry into the handset market proper, taking an approach more aligned with Apple’s than Google’s. It’s not only that it’s the first time Microsoft has acquired a licensee, but it’s also that it acquired one that had a dominant share of its licensing business in a device category.

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If you’re wondering what Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, has been up to since he sold the read-it-later service to Betaworks, wonder no more. At the XOXO festival in Portland, OR, Arment announced that he’s been working on a new podcasting app for iOS called Overcast. Why? The tl;dr reason is because “podcasts are awesome” (We can’t say we disagree). The long of it, however, is because as a lover of podcasts, Arment was frustrated at the quality of the podcast apps that are out there, stating that Apple has been asleep at the podcast wheel for years and third-party solutions aren’t that much better. So he’s taken matters into his own hands with Overcast. He’s currently about half-way done with the app and hopes to release it later this year. We don’t really know that much more about it, but if Arment’s previous work is any indication, we have high hopes for this one. In the meantime, you can head on over to Overcast.fm to sign up for updates.

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Ladies and gentlemen, are you ready to meet the follow-up to Microsoft’s Windows 8 tablet? There’s most definitely new Surface (and likely Surface Pro) hardware in store at tomorrow’s NYC event, so you’ll want to tune in as Ballmer and co. unveil the goods. Keep your browsers locked here from 10:30 AM ET and on — we’ll be updating you live from the NYC launch!

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