“According to a report issued on Wednesday, consumers who already own or plan to buy a new tablet are only interested in one thing: the Apple iPad,” Nick Bilton reports for The New York Times.
“The report, which was published by Robert W. Baird, a Milwaukee-based wealth management and analyst company, was conducted through a survey of 1,114 people, 98 percent of whom lived in the United States,” Bilton reports. “More than 50 percent of those surveyed, who were between 22 and 60 years old, said they already owned a tablet or were interested in buying one soon, with 95 percent of these respondents choosing the Apple iPad.”
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Bilton reports, “Jayson Noland, an analyst and an author of the report, said it was very unlikely that any iPad competitors would be able to catch Apple in the near future.”
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If only it had a full USB port.
I want a floppy drive and serial ports. Can’t understand how a pad can be useful without them! Oh – and a SCSI port would be great too.
please stick an RS232 C in there, too, so I can use my TRS-80 peripherals
PS2 port! Oh, and a plug for my cassette player.
No Android Tablet is complete until they also include the old PC parallel port so those ancient printers can still be used.
It also would be nice if they shoehorn in some slots for drop in ISA cards that many miss.
sure why not
Would you like that with a side of VHS
VHS??!! BetaMax please!
HP’s TouchPad is literally bolted to a display in Staples and I have not yet seen a single person even come by and touch the screen.
Is that an “industry survey” worth noting?
I tried, of course it was not connected to any wireless, nor was any available. I was gonna set the homepage and wallpaper to the iPad page at apple.com. Junk
if only coding was possible on the iPad then it would be a perfect tablet.
Aren’t there apps for that. I was just reading about it somewhere.
Bloodbath
That can’t be right. Android is OPEN! And OPEN ALWAYS WINS.
It runs FLASH, millions of videos at your fingertips. At least that’s the ad I hear. It didn’t do squat because everyone knows FLASH SUCKS!!!
It’s odd that in this report the second most wanted tablet is HP Touchpad and yet, there’s another article saying Best Buy has only sold less that 10% of their stock. Either something doesn’t match or other tablets are actually doing even worse.
Remember, these are people that say the own a tablet OR plan to buy one soon. It is possible that the 10% of Touchpad respondents have never even seen one in person, and only “think” (I use the term loosely) that they want one.
And they accepted multiple answers.
I’d like to see the results of a poll where you had to name only one.
Did we really need a survey to know this … There is really no other choice…. People already refer to a tablets as “iPads” and use a “Kleenex” to blow their nose… But it’s worse because no one else can make an iPad…
Title somewhat misleading since the numbers add up to more than 100%. Should be more like 95% of tablet buyers are interested in looking at an iPad.
95% want an iPad… and other 5% want some other type of tablet that they hopelessly believe will do everything an iPad will do. So basically, 100% want an iPad, it’s just that a few have trouble admitting it…
Lies, damn lies & statistics! A good example whereby the headline is not representative of the article.
94.5 want an iPad and 10.4% want an HP? that is 104.9 %!!
Something is wrong with that data.
There might be some overlap in the data in that respondents could have answered one question twice and expressed a different choice each time. They could have changed their minds and chose the iPad upon reflection.
Check out the small print under the graph.
After looking at the other pad computers and the software that runs on them, why would you want something other than a iPad?
The answer to your conundrum is at the bottom of the graph: “Multiple answers accepted”.
Wait, there are other tablets?
Methinks some people surveyed must have voted for more than one tablet. All of those percentages add up to 141.8%. Statistics makes my head hurt.
So, there are 3 tiers. Apple is clearly in a tier by itself. The next three, the Touchpad, the Xoom and the SamTab are in the 8 to 10% range. The rest are 4% or less. Not surprisingly the top-4 all advertise on TV. Interestingly, RIM also advertises but it’s PB is in the lowest tier. That has to hurt!
I know a number of teenagers buying Android tablets because they run Flash (so they can watch movies/TV shows on-line).
But I’m not worried. They’ll grow up one day and see the light…
😉
Quick! Someone tell Rush Limbaugh…
He’ll certainly buy that poor, ignorant bastard an iPad!
He does that sort of thing, I hear.
“consumers who already own or plan to buy a new tablet are only interested in one thing: the Apple iPad,”
In other words…. People are only interested in one thing: things that work. And iPad works, and works in a really cool way, and works all the time!