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“But the bigger problem [are] the dates [comScore’s data covers],” Elmer-DeWitt reports. “The iPhone 4 was launched in the U.S. June 24 and promptly sold out. Sales been limited by short supplies ever since.”
Elmer-DeWitt reports, “But more important, for most of the three months covered by the data in the second chart, the iPhone 4 wasn’t available for sale at all. And in fact, sales of the iPhone 4’s predecessors were almost certainly suppressed for all of May and most of June thanks to Gizmodo, which published photos of the new iPhone in mid-April. Who wants to buy the old phone when you know a new one (and price cuts on the old) are just around the corner?”
Full article, with chart and more info, here.
MacDailyNews Take: Pay careful attention to all of these “Android is beating Apple iPhone” reports and you’ll find that the “studies” on which they are based have chosen their dates and what they cover very carefully in order to favor Android. Yes, Android is growing rapidly. In the initial quarters after launch, that’s what happens. The same thing happened with iPhone, too.
Measuring Apple iPhone sales at their low point (everybody knows a new one is coming around June), with a massive new model leak saturating even the non-tech media, limiting to one country (in which Apple has an long-running and hopefully soon-to-end single carrier exclusive), and even excluding entire market segments in which Apple’s iPhone has a rapidly-growing presence in order to make Android phones look more successful than iPhone would be laughable if so many saps didn’t swallow it hook, line, and sinker.
Why is this happening? The answer, as usual, likely has much to do with who stands to benefit most from the disinformation.
Statistics are like bikinis. What they reveal is suggestive, but what they conceal is vital. – Aaron Levenstein
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “iWill” for the heads up.]