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- CDs still sell: Who are these people?!?
- Apple's iTunes music juggernaut accounts for 25 percent of music sold. The rub: Sixty-five percent of you are still buying CDs for your music in the first half of 2009, according to research firm NPD. The big question today: Who are these people still buying CDs? Sam...
- Blog posts 2009-08-18
- NPD data shows Apple sales and revenues in freefall
- NPD data shows Apple sales and revenues in freefallMake More MoneyWill Apple be punished for not representing the rank and file? Will loss leadership and offering a $400 netbook turn this poor company around?Oh who cares. Thanks ZDNet for inciting another battle in the class war that has pitted the...
- Discussion threads 2009-03-17
- PC units still selling; Apple flat but worries may be overblown
- November PC sales slowed in November, but haven't fallen off a cliff due to strong notebook and netbook unit growth, according to NPD data. NPD has released its PC sell-through stats and November unit growth was 6 percent from a year ago compared to 10 percent in...
- Blog posts 2008-12-16
- NPD: iPhone top dog in declining consumer handset market
- Apple's iPhone 3G was the top selling handset in the third quarter, but consumers are generally curbing their gadget lust in a weak economy. According to research firm NPD, the iPhone 3G has topped Motrola's RAZR as the most purchased handset among consumers. NPD doesn't track corporate...
- Blog posts 2008-11-10
- 48% of US teens did not buy a single CD in 2007
- NPD says that 48% of US teens did not purchase a single CD in 2007, compared to 38% in 2006. The report estimates that one mln consumers dropped out of the CD buyer market in 2007. by AM
- Blog posts 2008-02-26
- Is Microsoft's Danger play a poke at Apple? Google? (updated)
- Is Microsoft's Danger play a poke at Apple? Google? updatednot what was statedIn the article, it was mentioned that MS was interested in their expertise with mobile hardware, not rebadging the sidekick into an iPhone competitor. The graphic on the page is just the old sidekick.With the cash MS...
- Discussion threads 2008-02-12
- NPD: Apple launch of Leopard system its best ever
- NPD: Apple launch of Leopard system its best everMore info pleaseI hate when fanboys write articles.I wish poeple would stop manipulating facts to make them sound smart.What percent of total mac users are buying leopard now, compared to toal % users buying tiger when it came out,because they are charging...
- Discussion threads 2007-12-18
- Wii continues to hammer PS3 in Japan
- Wii continues to hammer PS3 in JapanHow about US NumbersNTHow about some relevant stats...? n/tn/tMost recent NPD reports.Playstation 3 outsold by GBAhttp://www.gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=25104May NPD: Nintendo still on top, industry sales up 49%http://www.joystiq.com/2007/06/14/may-npd-nintendo-still-on-top-industry-sales-up-49/NPD: Nintendo rocks yet another monthhttp://www.nintendowiifanboy.com/2007/06/15/npd-nintendo-rocks-yet-another-month/NPD: The Gamasutra Analysishttp://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=14341[b] * Nintendo DS: 423K ...
- Discussion threads 2007-07-03
- Ringtones at $2.50 a pop under-valued
- According to The NPD Group,, consumers are willing to pay more for a 30-second snippet of a song track to be used as a ringtone than to download an entire song track. In addition, consumers are willing to pay a premium (above the average $0.99 price for paid music downloads...
- Blog posts 2006-01-16
- Video game sales reached $2.2 bln in Q1 2005
- NPD says Q1 2005 sales of video games in the US reached $2.2 bln, a 23% jump YTY. Q1 2005 unit sales reached 63 mln units, an 18% YTY increase. Portable hardware had sales of more than $293 mln, an increase of 162% YTY. Over 1.9 mln units of portable...
- Blog posts 2005-05-27
- Online music market shares: iTunes - 70%, Napster - 11%, Real, MusicMatch, WalMart - 6%
- NPD said the number of consumers paying for downloads fell to nearly 1 mln users per month in May, June and July from a peak of 1.3 mln in April 2004. From December 2003 to July 2004, iTunes remained the dominant destination, commanding nearly 70% of music files downloaded legally,...
- Blog posts 2004-10-12
- PC gaming market declines 14.3% in 2003
- The PC game business has struggled as of late, dropping in 2003 to $1.2 bln in the U.S. according to NPD figures, versus a 2002 total of $1.4 bln. The segment also experienced double digit declines in unit sales in 2002 when compared to 2001, after posting year-over-year unit increases...
- Blog posts 2004-07-19
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- NPD: The subscription model bucks economy
- The economy may stink, but consumers are clinging to their entertainment and mobile subscriptions. by Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Is Windows 7 a Mac OS X wannabe? That explains why I like it
- no, it looks like kde but doesn't have it's functionalityjust put kde 3.5. with transparent taskbar and crystal theme and you got what win7 looks like.and kde 3.5. was way older than vista and 7.So it IS about pride after all?To Apple fans it is always important who copied who....
- Discussion threads 2009-11-12
- Apple's September quarter: Expect Mac unit upside
- Recent signs of PC market strength are likely to translate into a happy September quarter for Apple courtesy of Mac sales. Gartner and IDC reported that the third quarter was better-than-expected for PC sales and that bodes well for Apple. Meanwhile, NPD data is also looking good...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Preview Party: Windows 7 makes a big splash in a Mac house
- Did you hear the one about the Mac family that opened its doors - and its mind - to Microsoft Windows? For one night, Windows 7 took center stage in my living room as a half-dozen or so friends stopped by for one of the official Windows...
- Blog posts 2009-10-09
- PC vs. Mac: It's not zero sum
- Or...In 85% of cases the Mac is a secondary PC to a Windows OEM machine.And, of course, that doesn't include the Mac users who use Windows on their Macs rather than a separate Windows box. See, you can cut statistics any way you want.Macs are PC'sA better question would have...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-05
- PC vs. Mac: It's not zero sum
- You're a Mac. And you're a PC. You're both. Welcome to the reality that isn't what the zero summers---folks that think you need to be all Mac or all PC---portray. According to research firm NPD Group, 12 percent of computer owning households own a Mac, up from...
- Blog posts 2009-10-05
- Interview with Microsoft’s Seth Patton
- More from the Project Conference Seth Patton is the senior marketing director for Microsoft Project. I got thirty minutes alone with Seth at the Microsoft Project Conference 2009 show this afternoon. We discussed several topics impacting the PSA professional services automation and PPM...
- Blog posts 2009-09-16
- Give Google a break!
- soooo over googlegoogle has joined microsoft and apple on the dark side.i stopped using google after they ceased being a search engine and became a money factory. security, privacy and ownership issues shouldn't be played out in court after the fact, they should be delt with in the board room...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
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