Nearly 3 out of 5 tablet owners
consume news on their tablets.
Not exact matches
Although
tablet owners spend more time
consuming news than poking around
on Facebook, they're reluctant to pay for
news content.
Consuming news (everything from the latest headlines to in - depth articles and commentary) ranks as one of the most popular activities
on the
tablet, about as popular as sending and receiving email (54 % email daily
on their
tablet), and more popular than social networking (39 %), gaming (30 %), reading books (17 %) or watching movies and videos (13 %).
The study reveals that, so far, while about two - thirds of
tablet news users have a
news app
on their
tablet, the browser, carried over from the desktop experience, is still the more popular means of
consuming news.
That belief was based
on the sense that people would
consume information
on tablets largely through special applications or apps that provide content from a favorite
news organization like the New York Times or one's local newspaper.
One positive sign, as discussed earlier, is that the substitution does not seem to be cutting down
on the overall time
tablet users spend
consuming news, including long - form articles and analysis.
News consumed on the tablet has also, for many, become a replacement for news that used to be obtained through other platforms, which may well have both a positive and negative impact on the news indus
News consumed on the
tablet has also, for many, become a replacement for
news that used to be obtained through other platforms, which may well have both a positive and negative impact on the news indus
news that used to be obtained through other platforms, which may well have both a positive and negative impact
on the
news indus
news industry.
Google has apps for pretty much all the most important functions
on a phone or
tablet — email, messaging, maps, storage, browsing, reading the
news, finding and
consuming media — and they are interlocked so that tasks flow naturally from one app to the next.