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Survey: Tablet Buyers Only Have Eyes for the iPad | News & Opinion | PCMag.com

August 17, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Current tablet owners and prospective buyers alike overwhelmingly have their eyes on just one company’s device for future purchases—Apple’s iPad. Some 93 percent of consumers who already own a tablet own an iPad, according to a new survey from Baird Research & Insights, while more than 94 percent of potential purchasers are considering buying an Apple tablet.

Coming in a distant second was Hewlett-Packard’s TouchPad with webOS, named by 10.4 percent of respondents as a tablet they would consider buying, according to the Baird survey (table below). Given that respondents were allowed to give multiple responses in naming a tablet they’d consider buying, HP probably shouldn’t get too complacent about its second-place finish.

And given that Best Buy has reportedly sold only 25,000 of the 270,000 TouchPads that HP has supplied the retailer with—this despite HP slashing its asking price for 16GB and 32GB TouchPads by $100 recently—all of the other tablet makers who finished even further behind Apple probably ought to be really worried.

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iPad 2 Tops Consumer Reports Tablet Ratings – NYTimes.com

April 7, 2011 By Leave a Comment

Consumer Reports has released its rundown of the top 10 tablets, and while it says there’s some competition brewing, Apple still wins in terms of both quality and price. The iPad also has a leg up on competitors that are yet to be released, and Consumer Reports does a good job of pointing to little details that illustrate why that is.

The iPad took four of the top five spots on Consumer Reports’ ratings chart. The 32 GB  iPad 2 with Wi-Fi + 3G topped the list with an overall score of 84, and the 32 GB iPad 2 Wi-Fi took second. Original model 32 GB iPads with 3G and Wi-Fi-only took third and fifth, respectively. The Motorola Xoom was the only non-Apple tablet in the top five, with a fourth-place ranking.

The top five, plus the Samsung Galaxy Tab, which came in sixth, earned Consumer Reports‘ “Buy” recommendation. The remaining devices on the list, which included, in order of ranking, the ViewSonic ViewPad 7, the Archos 101 Internet Tablet, the Dell Streak and the Archos 70 Internet Tablet, all ranked quite a bit lower than the top six.

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1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld

May 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Positive press and word of mouth from very satisfied owners has convinced one-in-five U.S. consumers to buy an Apple iPad, a survey published today said.

In a poll of nearly 3,400 consumers, ChangeWave Research found that 7% are “very likely,” and 13% “somewhat likely” to buy an iPad at some point. Those numbers, noted Paul Carton, ChangeWave’s research director, are significantly higher than the 4% and 9% who answered the same way in a February survey taken after Apple CEO Steve Jobs had unveiled the media tablet, but before it went on sale in early April.

While 19% of those who plan to purchase an iPad said that they would do so in the next 90 days, the majority of consumers who want an Apple tablet will buy one in six months or more. And that has to make Apple happy this holiday season.

“Apple’s going to have an iPad holiday,” said Carton. “We’ll see a holiday spending wave on the iPad.”

Of the consumers who said they plan to buy an iPad, 24% said they would do so in 6 to 12 months, with another 24% saying they would pull the buying trigger in 12 to 24 months.

via 1-in-5 U.S. consumers plan to buy Apple’s iPad – Computerworld.

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O2 reveals iPad data plans – V3.co.uk

May 10, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Apple is taking UK pre-orders for the iPad from today, with O2 the latest operator to officially announce monthly pricing options.

Prices for the Apple tablet start at £430 for the 16GB Wi-Fi version and rise to £699 for the 64GB Wi-Fi plus 3G option. Apple said that units will be made available on 28 May.

O2 said today that its iPad tariff options are available without long contracts, and include unlimited access to wireless networks from BT Openzone and The Cloud.

The operator added that it will provide additional features such as notifications when customers approach their data limits.

“We are truly excited to provide service for the iPad with Wi-Fi + 3G,” said O2 marketing director Sally Cowdry.

“We have worked closely with Apple to make sure customers get an excellent experience when using their iPad Wi-Fi + 3G on O2. Not only will it be quick and easy to buy value-for-money data access from the device, but customers will benefit from our great network and customer service and access to thousands of public Wi-Fi hotspots.”

O2 offers a pay-as-you-go service for £2 per day and two monthly tariffs, a 1GB plus unlimited Wi-Fi for £10 a month and 3GB plus unlimited Wi-Fi for £15 a month.

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The Apple Tablet: A Game Changer for Litigation Technology? | The Rung

March 8, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Document review

While it’s somewhat challenging to port Concordance or Summation directly to a build of OS X, if a firm employs Citrix or another remote desktop solution, the ability to perform document review from a tablet could be a few taps away. Depending on whether or not the user is afforded a “full desktop” mode (i.e. as many netbooks do), a document review could potentially be conducted wirelessly via a remote desktop session on a tablet running a full desktop mode. This creates the potential for reviewers to page through documents anywhere they can receive Internet access, all on a device that could be less than an inch thick. Hopefully the battery life will support at least a few hours at full screen brightness, as this could really change the historically limited concept of reviewing documents (i.e. using a bulky laptop or forced to sit at a desktop). While I obviously don’t believe this will help DBA’s (no indexing or running CPL’s – I couldn’t even imagine trying to load data), they will need to take into consideration how the device will fit within their user’s workflow.

Client communication

The smartphone, Blackberry and iPhone opened up the instant ability to converse with clients in writing, review information on the go and exist more productively outside the office. A tablet interface could potentially bring this to a new level. How? In the future, I envision many (note: not all) law firms creating their own application within the iTunes App Store. As dedicated web portals, intranet access and SharePoint become pillars of service clients expect and rely on, “Apps” fundamentally take the bricks out of the briefcase. Imagine asking a client to download your firm’s application from the App Store, logging in via secure credentials and gaining access to their data immediately, without a fuss, lousy user interface or the normal challenges? From one interface they could review the docket, recent applicable case law, an upcoming calendar of events or critical documents with just a few taps of their finger.

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Apple Launches iPad Tablet, iBooks Bookstore – Reviews by PC Magazine

January 27, 2010 By Leave a Comment

After years of rumors, speculation, and leaks, Apple today announced its long-await tablet, the iPad.

Chief executive Steve Jobs complemented the introduction of the new device with a new e-bookstore, called iBooks, together with partnerships with four major publishers, and showed off new versions of its iWork application and third-party applications.

Jobs kicked off the company’s launch event in San Francisco on Wednesday by highlighting the history of the company’s mobile products. “We’re the largest mobile device company in the world,” he told the audience, showcasing the iPhone and the company’s line of MacBook products.

“There is room for something in the middle,” he told the crowd. “If there’s gonna be a third category, it has to be better at [Web browsing, e-mail, photos, video, music, games, and e-book reader]—otherwise it has no reason for being.”

While netbooks have attempted to address the space, Jobs added, “netbooks aren’t better than anything…They’re just cheap laptops.”

The key, he insisted is the tablet—a new device the company has christened the “iPad,” one of several rumored names, including the “iSlate” and, simply, the “Apple Tablet.” The iPad features a 9.7-inch, full capacitive multi-touch IPS display, weighs 1.5 pounds and measures 0.5 inches thick—”thinner and lighter than any netbook,” according to Jobs.

Pricing for the iPad starts at $499 – far lower than the early $1,000 projections of many analysts. The 16-, 32-, and 64-GB devices run $499, $599, $699 – with an additional $130 for 3G capability. The device will begin shipping in March.

For the chipset, the company went in-house, designing a 1-GHz Apple A4, contrary to rumors that the device would be powered by an Intel or Samsung chip. The iPad comes in three capacities: 16-, 32, and 64GB. It features built-in 802.11n Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 2.1, an accelerometer, company, speaker, and microphone.

via Apple Launches iPad Tablet, iBooks Bookstore – Reviews by PC Magazine.

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