NPD: Apple Is The King With 42% of All Smatphones Sold in Q4 2013

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kirby007 on 16 January 2014

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Not exactly reliable...

"NPD’s data comes from surveying some 4,500 smartphone users in the US. It’s important to note that Q4 2013 didn’t include December and thus didn’t factor in the holiday season, as the findings were collected between September and November 2013 as well as September and November 2012."

And yeah, the numbers are not for Q4 sales, but Q4 ownership out of those 4500 asked. I doubt this info is even statistically significant.

same sample size they allways use right?

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burning_phoneix on 16 January 2014

Would love to see worldwide sales/ownership though. NPD is North America only, correcT?

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kirby007 on 16 January 2014

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pezus said:

Not exactly reliable...

"NPD’s data comes from surveying some 4,500 smartphone users in the US. It’s important to note that Q4 2013 didn’t include December and thus didn’t factor in the holiday season, as the findings were collected between September and November 2013 as well as September and November 2012."

And yeah, the numbers are not for Q4 sales, but Q4 ownership out of those 4500 asked. I doubt this info is even statistically significant.

same sample size they allways use right?

For smartphones? No idea. Might be. Doesn't change the fact that such a small sample out of hundreds of millions means very little and, unless they always ask the same people or control for it somehow, the difference YOY is a useless stat.

I dont think its a fair comparison if the sample sizes were different

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atma998 on 16 January 2014

Well globally the picture was quite different if we look at 2013 Q3 numbers:

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MoHasanie on 17 January 2014

Interesting, but other than Samsung's phones, no other Android phone sells well in the US. Apple did release 2 new phones in the last few months, whilst Samsung only released the Note 3, and the Note is not anywhere near as popular as the Iphone so that explains Apple's market share.

Surprising that Windows/ Nokia isn't even mentioned. Wasn't the Windows OS supposed to be making huge increases by now?

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