What Do You Do With Your Tablet?

 

So, what are tablet owners doing most with their devices? According to a
survey of 1,400 U.S. tablet owners by Google’s AdMob, 84% are playing
games, followed by searching for information (78%), emailing (74%),
reading news (61%), social networking (56%), consuming music and/or
video (51%), and reading ebooks (46%). Interestingly, 28% now use their
tablets as their primary computers, while 43% spend more time with their
tablets than their PCs or laptops. Those last two percentages seem to jibe with
PC-shipment numbers IDC recently released, citing that Q1 2011 global
shipments sank 3.2% year-to-year to 80.6 million units from about 83.2
million, marking the first contraction in the global market since “the end of
the recent recession.” HP shipments dropped 2.8%, Dell 1.8%, and Acer
15.8%. Though “good-enough computing” is now a “firm reality, exemplified
first by mininotebooks and now media tablets,” IDC’s Jay Chou stated,
falling PC shipments are also tied to “extended PC lifetimes and the lack of
compelling new PC experiences,” stated IDC’s Bob O’Donnell.

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