Anyway, I really don't want to upset anyone over this, but no competent person in the business side of the software industry would ever take a press release about sales of a platform at face value. The platform owner will wriggle, use ambiguity, take the maximum of every estimated range - use every trick he or she can to get maximum numbers. When a platform owner says "300, 000 sales" that always means to the retail chain unless if is clearly stated otherwise - that's how the business works. If a manufacturer is claiming sales, look at the supporting evidence - stock counts in online retailers, downloads of apps, forum traffic, numbers of amazon reviews, ebay transactions, wiki interest, book publications. In the NIT's case these all say that end user sales are far lower than Nokia's claims, if you take them naively.