The number of adult Americans that a tablet possesses, has nearly doubled since the middle of december. A recent survey from Pew Internet shows that currently almost completed. n in five Americans owns a tablet.
Pew Internet and asked them in January via mobile and fixed telephone in total 2008 adults and calculated that 19 percent currently use a tablet owned. Mid-december was that percentage in a similar study among roughly 3,000 people is still at 10 percent. The possession of e-readers made a similar increase. The margin of error of the research is according to the research of 2.4 percentage points.
When the investigation is no distinction made in the type or brand. Most likely, the introduction of Amazons Kindle Fire tablet contributed to the strong increase, while the Transformer Prime from Asus, which just for the holidays in America came on the market, probably also has had an impact.
Comparable figures for the Netherlands are not known, but in the statistics of Tweakers.net is after christmas a large increase in tabletbezoek. The share in the total of visits from iPads and Android tablets with 33 percent, an indication that a large number of Tweakers a tablet under the christmas tree has encountered.