The popularity of Apple’s iPad shows no signs of slowing down, according to a recent survey by market research firm ChangeWave.
According to the firm’s May survey of 2,893 consumers, the iPad is still the tablet that an overwhelming majority of consumers plan to purchase. Of the respondents that plan to purchase a tablet in the next 90 days, 73 percent said they would buy an iPad.
The next closest competitor is the Amazon Kindle Fire with 8 percent intent to purchase and Samsung with 6 percent intent to purchase. No other company registered more than 3 percent of intent to purchase, according to ChangeWave.
The survey also noted the diminishing strength of the Kindle Fire after its initial release and surge.
God damn it! Linux WILL be used by everyone and on everything, even though they won’t like it or know how to use it!!!
This is actually mildly disappointing. I love my iPad, but there are things about it I’d like to see improved in future models. Hopefully Windows 8 will put up a little more of a fight.
The problem with most of the android tablets is they are trying to make them like desktop computers or laptops. The Windows 8 tablets are laughable, IMO the idea of a tablet is ease of use, it is not supposed to replace the desktop or laptop it is supposed to compliment it, which the iPad does very well.
There are things I wished the iPad could do but a lot of those things are becoming increasingly easier with better apps to go along with better hardware.
i wonder why the fire is fading. poor UI or hardware experience and purchasers telling people to get an ipad instead?
Family bought 3 regular kindles 2 years ago. They’ve all had to be replaced. One of them twice. Amazon has been great on support but you really shouldn’t need it that much. But that’s just ancedotal, haven’t heard anything about Fire failures.
Darn right! And THIS is the year of Linux!
Never mind that that was said about last year, and the year before, and the year before, and the…
Setting aside the fact that this survey was very much NOT scientifically sound, the conclusion seems to be a ‘no duh’ based on the anecdotes in the media. I don’t recall hearing about a school adopting Galaxy Tabs, Kindle Fires, whatever that new thing Intel is putting out etc. No talk of Airlines, restaurants and so forth.
What I do hear is folks pissed at Kindle for launching a tablet that requires you to be logged into your Prime account to use your downloaded media, doesn’t ask for a password to buy things etc. Yes they finally fixed it but that should have been fixed before they launched.
These kinds of things can kill a product. Especially when the other side is having meetings with textbook companies, designing products for schools etc.