NPD

iPad Keeps Apple No. 1 in Mobile PC Sales

John Paczkowski in Mobile on May 23 at 3:55 am PT

The mobile PC business is booming, and thanks to exploding iPad sales, Apple remains its undisputed leader.

This Just In: 3-D Isn’t a “Crucial” Television Feature

Lauren Goode in Product News on May 21 at 10:46 am PT

Sales of 3-D TVs are up, the NPD Group says, but whether consumers watch content in 3-D is a whole different story.

Tablets Quickly Becoming the Portable PC of Choice

John Paczkowski in News on May 4 at 4:01 am PT

By 2017 NPD expects tablet shipments to hit 424.9 million units, exceeding notebook PC shipments — for the second year in a row.

iPod Halo Now iPad Halo

John Paczkowski in News on April 26 at 12:36 pm PT

Apple’s got a new gateway drug.

March Quarter Mac Sales Could Miss (Not That It Really Matters)

John Paczkowski in News on April 17 at 4:01 am PT

Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster says first-quarter Mac sales may fall short of expectations when Apple reports earnings next week.

U.S. Videogame Sales Sank Deeper in February

Lauren Goode in News on March 9 at 10:00 am PT

The videogame industry continues to see year-over-year declines, according to the latest NPD data.

Pay Up? Okay. Music Buyers’ Numbers Increased In 2011.

Peter Kafka in Media on March 6 at 7:06 am PT

Could be a one-year Adele effect. Or maybe the industry really has turned the corner.

News Byte

Apple Captured a Fifth of U.S. Consumer Electronics Revenue in Holiday Quarter

John Paczkowski in News on February 13 at 12:07 pm PT

By now it’s a truism that Apple’s killing it in the United States consumer electronics industry, but here’s one more piece of data to drive that point home: NPD says Apple captured 19 percent of all sales dollars of consumer electronics in the U.S. in the holiday quarter of 2011. That’s nearly twice the percentage captured by Hewlett-Packard, which ranked second on NPD’s list of the top five CE brands.

News Byte

Tablet Sales Will Increase Fivefold Over Next Five Years

John Paczkowski in Mobile on January 30 at 3:46 pm PT

Worldwide tablet sales will quintuple over the next five years. This according to NPD DisplaySearch, which sees sales of tablets surging from 72.7 million in 2011 to 383.3 million in 2017. A remarkable spike, if it proves true — even more so because of what’s driving it: Emerging markets, which are expected to generate up to 46 percent of worldwide shipments by 2017.

Zynga’s Stock Is Up — And Why Every Other Game Company Stock Is Down

Tricia Duryee in Commerce on January 13 at 1:44 pm PT

Zynga is bucking market trends today and is trading higher despite a report that came out yesterday suggesting that December sales were extremely weak across the industry.