But despite these justifications, there has been virtually no industry analysis of whether this strategy actually worked, up until now.
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Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group, .
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Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis at NPD Techworld, a division of market research and analysis provider The NPD Group.
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Ross Rubin is executive director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group.
While I would not necessarily expect the government to do a good job of industry analysis, I would expect better of private investors.
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Nicole Brandle Schlegel, who is Head of Industry Analysis at Credit Suisse, says the survey specifically probes Swiss SMEs on their long term perspectives.
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"A progression of price declines during 2007 has led up to this, " says Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis for Port Washington, N.
"It's part of a growing trend to integrate hardware, software and services, " says Ross Rubin, director of consumer technology industry analysis for the NPD Group.
"The large screen market is a sweet spot right now for the TV industry, " said Ben Arnold, Director of Industry Analysis at The NPD Group.
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Partly because none of these general answers is wholly persuasive, it is the industry-by-industry analysis that is by far the best part of the book.
"Ultrabooks have helped establish a market for more premium-priced Windows notebooks at retail, " said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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Russ Crupnick, senior vice president of industry analysis for NPD, said the competition isn't hurting Apple yet because the iTunes user base is so big.
Ross Rubin is director of industry analysis for consumer technology at market research and analysis firm The NPD Group and a contributing editor for LAPTOP.
Crumbs perhaps grew too fast into suburban markets that couldn't support the brand, suggests John Gordon, principal at Pacific Management Consulting Group, a restaurant-industry analysis firm.
Android handsets sold briskly in the past year largely due to strong promotional support from Verizon Wireless, noted Ross Rubin, Director of Industry Analysis at the NPD Group.
"For the second consecutive quarter, Android handsets have shown strong, but slowing, sell-through market share gains among U.S. consumers, " says Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD.
"For the second consecutive quarter, Android handsets have shown strong but slowing sell-through market share gains among U.S. consumers, " said Ross Rubin, executive director of industry analysis for NPD.
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Officially, blame goes to smartphones that now make up the majority of handset sales in the U.S., according Ross Rubin, Executive Vice President of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at NPD Group, says GPS devices make good gifts since consumers have started to flock to them only this year as prices have come down.
Although Napster states that it is not possible to keep the same account logged in on two machines simultaneously, MusicAlly, a music industry analysis firm, found that in practice quite the reverse was true.
Richard Perks, director of Retail Research at industry analysis company MINTEL, said Europe's luxury brands have remained relatively unaffected by reduced retail spending because the global consumer base for luxury goods is growing.
"Even taking into account the tremendous sales growth of the Galaxy III and other Samsung smartphones, the iPhone is still king of the U.S.-market hill, " said Stephen Baker, vice president of industry analysis at The NPD Group.
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Figures 5 and 6 are based on industry tear down analysis by iSuppli of the Apple iPhone 4G.
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To determine the average amount consumers might pay to keep their new cars in operating condition, we used 2008 repair estimates calculated over a five-year period by Vincentric, an auto-industry data-analysis company.
One would think that the entire exercise these people go through would be considered meaningless, but the fundamental analysis industry is much too big and established, and there's no chance that this game will come to an end in our lifetime.
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According to an analysis by industry tracker Recma, WPP is the biggest ad firm in greater China (36% of total billings), India (56%) and Thailand (39%).
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