..Which is why I would only use them them as part of a package of about half a dozen indicators. If it was just forum size vs Nokia's claims, then you'd be in a strong position. But it's not. (Btw - substituting a strawman version of an argument you disagree with rarely works on the Internet or real life...)

Sure. Whenever someone with a vested interest tells you something to their advantage it has to be truth: there really *were* WMD in Iraq, and those pills you were offered really *will* make your penis larger. Honestly! Keep handing over the money and you *personally* will be a WMD!

Every independent metric I can come up with says that NIT sales are probably tiny - can you come up with anything but "Nokia says <insert ambiguous, non-legally binding claim>"? Because that just isn't an argument an average grown up will believe, any more than he will believe that adding self-approval smilies makes his or herself look more intelligent or his argument stronger.