You can also check Pricenomics.com to see a list of current sales and a handy chart showing the average price of the device over time.
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It's quite a reach, says Rebecca Lindland, an analyst with Global Insight, a forecasting firm: The 1-million-unit goal would mean increasing sales 13% a year, (see chart).
For some things, like retail sales, the categories into which Google classifies its search-trend data correspond closely to what people may want to predict, such as the sales of a particular brand of car (see chart).
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The chart of Retail Sales shows that it is in a nice uptrend despite the pessimism over the consumer.
Using our modifiable chart above, for a 5 million unit change in iPad sales by 2013 translates to around 1% shift in our price estimate.
Although five of America's top markets are in Asia (see chart), only Japan looms large as a market for in-country sales.
As the chart indicates, retail sales have exceeded the 2008 peak, and are in a solid uptrend.
Despite record sales, only 4% of the population has a car, a relatively low figure (see chart).
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Proton sold only 5, 500 cars in April in Malaysia, half the sales of a year before, and even that was an improvement on a dreadful March (see chart).
The same-store sales reported last week showed strong January numbers, and the longer-term chart shows a solid uptrend (line b) and the breakout in 2011 above the 2007-2008 highs (line a).
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The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has not yet published its figures for retail sales in November, but for some time it has been painting a more reassuring picture than the BRC (see chart).
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