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The iPad’s customer satisfaction is through the roof, according to a ChangeWave report, while Amazon’s Kindle barely exceeds the satisfaction level of the rest of the tablet pack.
When asked how satisfied they are with their new tablet device, better than one-in-two Kindle Fire owners (54%) say they are Very Satisfied. Another 38% say they are Somewhat Satisfied.
In previous ChangeWave surveys we’ve found that the percentage of tablet owners who say they are Very Satisfied with a particular device is highly predictive of future demand for that device. So how does the Amazon tablet rating match up against other tablet devices?
While the 54% Very Satisfied rating for the Kindle Fire is considerably below the 74% rating of the industry leading Apple iPad*, it is higher than the 49% average rating for all of the other tablet devices combined.
Based on articles by Dan Rowinski, ReadWrite Mobile and By Kevin C. Tofel, GigaOm
Fragmentation is often seen as the biggest bane for publishers developing Android applications. There are hundreds of Android devices on the market, running different versions of the operating system across disparate screen sizes and pixel resolutions. At this point, given that Android fragmentation appeared out of control at one time, the current situation is the best that Android developers could hope for.
Mobile analytics company Localytics found that between that nearly 96% of all devices in its network are running either Android version 2.3 Gingerbread or version 2.2. Froyo. From a screen size point of view, there are only five major smartphone screens. Of all app usage in the Localytics study, 41% of Android devices used 4.3-inch screens. 4-inch screens had 22% of application sessions while 3.2-inch screens had 11% and 3.7-inch 9%.
The three most popular Android slates were the Kindle Fire, Barnes & Noble Nook and the 7-inch Samsung Galaxy Tab. That means 74% of all Android tablet usage was on a 7-inch screen, running Gingerbread at a resolution of 1280×800 pixels.
Android 4.0 is a “fresh start” for the platform on both tablets and smartphones; getting handset makers to adopt it sooner, rather than later, should be a key Google initiative to help both consumers and developers.
By Chris Murphy, InformationWeek
Level 3 Communications just gave iPads to its 1,300 North American salespeople and sales engineers. IT didn’t take away their laptops, but it did load the iPads with software to do all the most important things in a salesperson’s life: offer price quotes, build and make presentations, send email, look up customer records, check products. ….
What’s next for Level 3′s iPad app? Taylor doesn’t pretend to know. “Enterprise IT is dead,” he likes to say–meaning IT needs to take the consumer tools people like to use, watch and learn how people work best, and then provide systems that fit. He’s convinced there’s something important and different in how efficiently people interact with the tablets’ interface, and that “we’ve only scratched the surface of using that.” …
Darrell Etherington in GigaOm:
InformationWeek goes into much more detail about what the iPads meant for Level 3, but the advantages for salespeople on the ground can be boiled down to three main categories:
1. Instant on. The iPad’s ability to instantly wake from sleep and pick up right where a user left off exceed that of even the fastest SSD-equipped notebooks, and it only sips power in tiny amounts in order to provide that functionality. That, combined with its superior portability, makes it the perfect tool for doing “quick checks between meetings, at an airport, or in a taxi,” InformationWeek says. With a laptop, five minutes in a taxi might not seem like enough time to make powering up worth your while; with the iPad, that’s a nonissue.
2. Connectivity. The iPad (at least the 3G models) provides always-on cellular network access, as long as you are within coverage range. Some laptops can offer that, but the process is still often more complicated than just tapping the wake button and being ready to surf, email or chat. But it’s not just cellular radios that make the iPad great for sales; built-in GPS positioning means salespeople can get locally relevant information, like clients or potential clients in the immediate area, in only a few short steps via task-specific software.
3. On-device demo. A laptop is an ineffective replacement for a catalog, and presenting a slide show on one is awkward. Using an iPad as a presentation tool, on the other hand, is natural. The tablet is easily passed around, can be read like a magazine, and can also output to external displays with less hassle and fewer steps than a laptop.
By Don Reisinger, CNET
During the fourth quarter of 2011, 10.5 million Android-based tablets shipped worldwide, helping them secure 39.1 percent of the market. … For well over a year now, it has been believed that the iPad can fend off Android, due mainly to the general inability on the part of Apple’s competitors to come up with a highly sought-after alternative. Back in the fourth quarter of 2010, the numbers seemed to prove that point, as Apple secured 68.2 percent of the tablet space, and Android devices came in second with just 29 percent share. … “Dozens of Android models distributed across multiple countries by numerous brands such as Amazon, Samsung, Asus and others have been driving volumes,” …
Android is so far proving relatively popular with tablet manufacturers despite nagging concerns about fragmentation of Android’s operating system, user-interface and app store ecosystem.” … Regardless of which company is leading the way, it’s clear tablets are taking hold in a big way worldwide.
By Darrell Etherington, GigaOm
Compared to Android, Apple still has a dominant position in the tablet market, with a 57.6 percent share compared to Android’s 39.1 percent, according to Strategy Analytics’ most recent numbers. In terms of year over year growth, the tablet space has grown by 150 percent between the end of 2010 and 2011. …The PC market, on the other hand, contracted by around six percent in the fourth quarter of 2011, according to research firm Gartner. That’s despite 20 percent growth by Apple’s own Mac line of computers. … If the trend of growing tablet and smartphone sales continue, and PC sales continue to decline, we’ll soon be in a position where mobiles are considered a primary device by the majority of users.
By Doug Gross, CNN
A new report from one of the Web’s leading researchers spells out what news reports have suggested: that tablet computers and e-readers made a huge leap in popularity this holiday season.
The number of U.S. adults who owned tablets such as Apple’s iPad and Amazon’s Kindle Fire, or e-readers, like the Kindle or Barnes & Noble’s Nook, increased from 10% in mid-December to 19% in early January, according to the report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. …
Women were the biggest new adopters of e-readers, jumping from just 6% who owned them in November to 21% in January, according to Pew. Men went from 6 to 16%. …
The iPad still remains the most popular tablet by a long shot, although analysts say the emergence of the Fire, which runs a modified version of Google’s Android operating system, makes it the first serious challenger to Apple’s dominance of the tablet market.
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Last year was the year that the tablet became an online retailer’s best friend as it emerged as the preferred device for many shoppers to make their purchases.
Based on its analysis of 16.2 billion visits to the websites of more than 150 retailers in 2011, Adobe Digital Marketing Insights found that Tablet Visitors spend over 50% more per purchase than visitors who use smartphones and over 20% more than visitors who use desktop/laptop computers. Additionally, Adobe found that Tablet Visitors are three times more likely to make a purchase than Smartphone Visitors and nearly as likely to purchase as Traditional Visitors.
Other findings from the Adobe study (Link to the Adobe study) include:
These findings suggest that retailers can no longer afford a “one-size-fits-all” approach to mobile optimization because Tablet Visitors and Smartphone Visitors are distinct customer segments. Retailers should evaluate the opportunity that Tablet Visitors offer and develop strategies to better attract, convert and retain them.
Another study by Ipsos OTX MediaCT on behalf of PayPal found that tablet owners were almost twice as likely to make purchases as those who only have smartphones. And 28 percent of dual smartphone and tablet owners said they were sure they spent more due to mobile shopping, compared with 13 percent of smartphone owners who said the same.
GigaOm: Tablets: the perfect shopping device
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By John Paul Titlow, ReadWriteWeb
… the iPad is finding a place in business all over the world. About 67% of iPad-owning professionals use their tablets at work, even if the vast majority of the devices are not supplied by employers, according to a recent survey by IDG. Of those people, 93% use the device for work-related communication. …
Between the “Business” and “Productivity” sections of the App Store, there are over 12,000 iPad applications available for download. … Some of the more popular choices include apps for word processing, document reading and signing, remote desktop, file-syncing, communication and collaboration.
The iPad and its chief competitors in the tablet space are not poised to replace laptops and desktops just yet, a fact confirmed in IDG’s survey. Only 6% of respondents said their tablet has “completely replaced” their PC and 16% said the iPad had ousted their laptop from their lives. Instead, the tablet is serving as more of a supplementary device. …
With cloud syncing of calendars, email and documents, the tablet becomes sort of an extension of the desktop. Content can be shifted seamlessly across devices via Dropbox, Instapaper or email.
… Starting around 2007, when Apple introduced the iPhone, sales of devices running mobile platforms have eaten into a large portion of traditional desktop and laptop sales.
Apple sells far more iOS devices than those that run Mac OS X: in the last quarter of 2011, Apple sold at least 28 million iOS devices, vs 4.9 million Macs. And with a few niche exceptions that don’t account to a meaningful number of sales, Android devices are all mobile devices, not traditional computers.
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Another positive article about the Samsung Galaxy Note. Dylan Tweney wrote on MobileBeat:
With a 5.3-inch display, it’s a gigantic phone — but also a pretty small tablet. Unusually for a modern tablet, it comes with a stylus, though it works with your naked fingers, too.
To my surprise, it works pretty well. I spent some quality time with the Galaxy Note at CES 2012 today and came away impressed with its flexibility and responsiveness. The stylus was unexpectedly useful, particularly when enclosed in the larger shell that makes it into a full-sized pen. The Note ships with its own note-taking app, called S-Memo, and can even do handwriting recognition on your scribbles. The handwriting recognition was relatively accurate, in our limited testing, although it’s slow.
Antonio Rodriguez was very skeptical in his last blog post about the future of Android and predicts that it will die in the next two years:
The dream of a common Android that developers can write/deploy apps to and users can become familiar with is burning. More specifically, three events in 2011 burned it and we’re now holding on to a charred corpse that is quite different: an Android so splintered that it will make the glass on your Galaxy Nexus S2 Prime Pie dropped on concrete look like an ice skating rink.
The three events:
Of the the three, #1 was completely avoidable but the other two may just have been the name of the game when there is so much at stake in the fight of who paints the interface for the next generation of computing.
Om Malik wrote on Gigaom about that same topic (http://gigaom.com/2012/01/10/apple-vs-samsung-and-the-reality-of-the-android-ecosystem/):
These changes mean challenges for the developers who now need to make some tough choices. Over the holidays a developer friend asked me which Android should his startup focus its energies on? Since his company is making apps focused primarily on the U.S. and European market, it makes no sense for him to start obsessing about Huawei or ZTE at least in the near term. Motorola and HTC are slipsliding away.
My answer to him was to go for Amazon Kindle Fire for tablets and Samsung for the phones. Samsung and Amazon both are spending an incredible amount of advertising dollars to promote their platforms and it makes perfect sense for small startups (depending on their regional focus) to tie their lot with them. Between those two platforms, he would be backing winners that would bring the highest return on investment for his little company.
That is, and will be, the reality of the Android ecosystem.
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