You can spin all you want, but these NPD figures in this thread, are NOT for devices in use or advertising hits. They are for actual Android smartphone US sales in the first quarter of this year, versus iPhone and RIM smartpone sales.
And NPD is about the most respected outfit in the country for measuring device sales. Just this Thursday, NPD will give is video game console and games sales for the month of April, like they have been doing for the past 15 years.
Uh, no, Joe, we are BOTH wrong. NPD is not reporting actual sales for ANY quarter here. NPD did an online SURVEY of 150,000 voluntary respondents about what they purchased:
"NPD tracks US consumer purchases via surveys, so *all* retailers are covered, including Apple Store brick-and-mortar and online (i.e., it's consumer-reported data, not from the retailers themselves at the point of sale). Compiled from online surveys sent to over 335,000 people per month from NPD’s online consumer panel. Respondents screened for having acquired a cell phone within the last 30 days. Data balanced, weighted and projected to the represent the U.S. population."—NPD response to query about methodology."This is quite different than "actual figures" for sales and since NPD states they sent out 335,000 survey requests... and only 150,000 were used... I'd like to see the raw data. Why were the others rejected?