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Nielsen: iPhone 4S launch was "enormous"

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jan 18th, 2012)

With all the lines here in the US and overseas, we knew the iPhone 4S was going to be a tremendous hit. Now, a Nielsen survey from December gives us some numbers to support this observation. According to the survey, 44.5 percent of smartphone buyers bought an iPhone in December. This number is ...

Daily Update for January 10, 2012

by Steven Sande (Jan 10th, 2012)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the inline player ...

Over a quarter of photos now taken with smartphones, according to NPD

by Mike Schramm (Dec 22nd, 2011)

I'll 'fess up -- on our wish list earlier this week, I was the one who asked (reasonably, I thought) for an Apple Camera. I've been shopping for a DSLR lately, and while the quality of some cameras are great, the interfaces are pretty terrible. I really do wish that Apple would step in and ...

Apple and Google mobile grew in 2011, all others shrank

by Kelly Hodgkins (Dec 15th, 2011)

Every month, the NPD analyzes the mobile market and tracks the performance of smartphone platforms and manufacturers. Now that the year is almost over, the metrics company released a comprehensive report that summarizes January to October 2011. Not surprising, the results show that Android is in ...

NPD: Outside of the iPad, TouchPad's fire sales make it number one

by Mike Schramm (Nov 22nd, 2011)

Analysis firm NPD has released one last report on tablet computers before the holiday season officially kicks off, and something crazy is happening to that market. Outside of the iPad (which of course is currently dominating the space), the next big contender goes to ... the HP TouchPad, a ...

NPD Group: iPhone 4, 3GS outsold Android phones in Q3

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 15th, 2011)

NPD's latest Mobile Phone Track service shows that Apple's iPhone 4 and iPhone 3GS outsold other Android phones on the market in the US for the third calendar quarter of 2011 -- the same situation as results for the previous quarter. The iPhone 4 held the top spot, with Apple's two-year-old ...

NPD says kids are buying more digital media than ever

by Steven Sande (Oct 4th, 2011)

If you're the parent of a child between the age of two and 14, you probably already know this; kids are spending more money on digital media than ever before. This unsurprising conclusion comes from market-research company NPD Group, which says that 21 cents out of every dollar kids spend on ...

iPhone, Android users concerned about security

by Kelly Hodgkins (Sep 22nd, 2011)

According to a survey from the NPD group, iPhone and Android users have one thing in common - they are both concerned about the security of their mobile phones. About 40% of of iOS and Android users are concerned about credit card theft, mobile device hacking, and more. Though people are ...

Daily Update for Sept. 13, 2011

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Sep 13th, 2011)

It's the TUAW Daily Update, your source for Apple news in a convenient audio format. You'll get all the top Apple stories of the day in three to five minutes, which is perfect for a quick review of what's happening in the Apple world. You can listen to today's Apple stories by clicking the ...

NPD suggests Apple had another record Mac quarter

by Mike Schramm (Jul 18th, 2011)

A new report from NPD says that Apple has probably done it again, racking up yet another quarter of record Mac sales. NPD puts the number of Macs sold at 4.2 million, which would be a year-over-year gain of 12%, and make for the best record Apple's Mac sales have ever had. US Mac sales in ...

Don't blame iPad for PC sales stagnation, says NPD

by Dana Franklin (May 11th, 2011)

A new study released by the NPD Group on Tuesday suggests a recent decline in personal computer shipments can't be blamed on the iPad. NPD's results contradict conventional wisdom, which assumed shiny new gadgets like Apple's iPad were eroding the PC market. According to NPD's figures, a ...

NPD: Mobile accounts for half of digital game downloads

by Mike Schramm (May 9th, 2011)

NPD has released a report that cites mobile games as a big driver for digital downloads overall. Digital game consumption has been growing in leaps and bounds lately, and according to the latest report, nearly half of all of those digital game downloads come from mobile game platforms, of ...

NPD: Mac sales up 47% in March

by Mike Schramm (Apr 18th, 2011)

The numbers are out on NPD's March report for computer sales, and our favorite Apple analyst, Piper Jaffray's Gene Munster, said MacBook Pro sales continued to drive Mac sales overall, boosting them up to a 47 percent year-over-year-growth. Munster says that despite an overall drop in the amount ...

Apple takes 4 percent of US digital video market, Netflix reigns

by Dana Franklin (Mar 15th, 2011)

The NPD Group crowned Netflix the heavyweight champion of digital, video-on-demand services in a statement released earlier today. Between January 2011 and February 2011, Netflix accounted for 61 percent of all movies downloaded or streamed over the internet or offered on-demand through a cable ...

Munster: Mac sales up 20 percent this year

by Chris Ward (Feb 23rd, 2011)

Apple's Mac sales are up 20 percent year-over-year and on target to meet expected sales of 3.6 million units in the March quarter, according to new domestic sales data from the NPD Group. Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster revealed the figures, and he says that he believes early numbers from the ...