"NPD Group" news, interviews, and features

News about NPD Group

• Apple stores: For show or sales?

  Apple's decision to cater to Watch buyers with reservation-only sales and in-store appointments worried one retail analys.

• 'Bingbooks' need free Office to compete with Chromebooks

  "As Office functionality becomes more free, the appeal of the paid version decreases"

• Estimates peg Mac sales up 19 per cent to new record

  Apple sold a record 5.75 million Macs in the quarter that ended December 31, an increase of 19 per cent that beat the overall industry ...

• Black Friday deals reveal deep iPad discounts

  U.S. retailers plan to mark down Apple's iPad with steep discounts for this year's Black Friday sales.

• Apple's new iMac is $200 cheaper -- and slower

  Another sign that volume matters to CEO Tim Cook, says analyst

• Surface Pro 3's 'tweener' screen is too small for a laptop, too big for a tablet

  People want smaller tablets and bigger-screen laptops, says analyst, not a 12-in. display

Interviews about NPD Group

• ​Is Dell/EMC multi-billion merger a channel friendly move?

  In the words of Forrest Gump; “My mama always said, life was like a box of chocolates; you never know what you’re going to get.”

Features about NPD Group

• How Apple could exploit a forever-free iCloud

  Rivals Google and Microsoft give away cloud storage to sell cheap notebooks, but Apple could take a different tack

• Chromebooks' success punches Microsoft in the gut

  Amazon, NPD Group trumpet sales of the bare-bones laptops in 2013 to consumers and businesses