Laptops continue to vie for consumer attention - and dollars - with growing
numbers of media tablets.
Not exact matches
It also «forecasts that the impact
of smartphone and, especially,
media tablet adoption will be so great that the
number of users accessing the Internet through PCs will first stagnate and then slowly decline.
The iPad mini is the leader here — not only in terms
of number of tablet - specific apps, but the fact that it supports
media playback from virtually every service on the market (the one exception is actually Google Play video).
Amazon has not had a Kindle
media event in a
number of years, they ceased having Fire
Tablet launches a few years ago.
Amazon has not had a Kindle
media event in a
number of years, they ceased having Fire
Tablet launches a few... [Read more...]
But Flash is nonetheless used to power rich
media on several popular Websites, and a
number of competitors immediately seized on that fact as a way to differentiate their own
tablets.
Rather than feeling like an integrated device targeted at reading books and viewing and listening to
media, it feels like a garden - variety
tablet with a
number of useful reading apps on it.
As smartphones begin to outsell simpler feature phones, and as
media tablet sales explode, the
number of mobile Internet users will grow by a compound annual growth rate (CAGR)
of 16.6 % between 2010 and 2015.
They have a
number of Android products, from phones to
tablets to docks to
media players, all at what they are...
According to Nielson
media group studies, increasing
numbers of users watch television with a smartphone, computer or
tablet in their hands.
According to Millennial
Media's November
numbers, the Kindle Fire's impression growth is now on a faster initial pace than that
of the Apple iPad, (s aapl) though it has the advantage
of selling into a more mature
tablet market and comes with a much more affordable $ 199 price tag.
Apple currently owns upwards
of 80 percent
of the
media tablet market, despite a growing
number of challengers to the iPad like the Motorola Xoom and Blackberry PlayBook.
As the popularity
of ebooks and digital
media continues to grow, so does the
number of new ebook readers and
tablets coming onto the market.
Having set the benchmark for a generation
of tablet devices, the iPad 2 is now almost uninspiring in terms
of core specs on - paper, with its A5 dual - core CPU outstripped by the dual and quad - core offerings that feature in a
number of the
tablet's rivals such as the Asus Eee Pad Transformer Prime and the Motorola Xoom 2
Media Edition.
The market, at least for the time being, is bifurcating between the luxury models (iPad and, in distant runner - up position, high - end Android
tablets), which can do many things well, and utilitarian models (such as Fire, running a modified version
of Google's Android, and a
number of other, pure - Android devices), which are intended mainly as
media - consuming devices.