The conspiracy to not count iPhone sales or iPad sales

A couple weeks ago I wrote about PC analyst firm, Strategy Analytics, and what I considered was their *deliberate* effort to not count iPhone sales -- by focusing on "superphone" sales which, mysteriously, did not include iPhone. (Nor any non-Android device, if memory serves.)

I followed this up last week with a post entitled "The conspiracy to not count iPhone sales."

Apparently, this is not confined to iPhone sales only, but to iPad sales as well. Gruber writes today about a deliberate effort to not count iPad when counting, you know, tablet sales:

What makes this whole presentation so contorted is the notion of “non-Apple tablets” as a separate product category, without any context as to where these tablets stand when the iPad is included.

Over the course of 2-3 weeks you have myself and Gruber pointing out where well-paid "analysts" are going out of their way to not count iPhone sales or iPad sales.

Why?

Is it because Google and Microsoft are paying these firms for these reports?

Can't say.

My gut tells me that it's because Google and Microsoft are paying *a lot of money* to these firms.