“Citi Group Financial’s internal research group… surveyed almost 2000 people and found some interesting results globally for tablets,” Ben Bajarin reports for Tech.pinions.
“In the US only 8% had purchased a tablet with the intent of replacing a laptop. The bulk of the usage of tablets the research turned up was for more lightweight consumption,” Bajarin reports. “Things like web browsing, email, social networking and multimedia were the top usage models. Their China research however turned up very different results.”
Bajarin reports, “It appears that in China there are significantly more people looking at buying tablets and using them as a laptop replacement… 31% of Chinese respondents said that their interest in purchasing a tablet was to replace their notebook. Another 26% expressed interest in a tablet to replace their desktop and another 30% interested in replacing their Netbook with a tablet… iPad could be huge in China is firstly because China is a huge market and second because they appear to be interested in a tablet as a PC replacement.”
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