Apple taking the tablet market by storm is no secret. Recently a research conducted by Nielsen in April has confirmed Apple’s dominance in the US tablet market. The iPad tops the chart with a dominating (to say the least) 82% followed by Samsung’s Galaxy Tab at a mere 4%, more closely followed by Dell’s Streak @3% and Motorola Xoom @2%.
The findings of the polled survey also reveals that of the iPad users, 43% own the 3G version whereas 39% own Wi-Fi only version. Among the tablet users around 50% of them use it as a personal device and 43% share it with others.
Job’s prediction that the tablet industry will revolutionize the market completely and bring down desktop and laptop usage has also been upheld by the survey. The survey shows that among the tablet owners around 35% of the desktop users have either lessened their usage or don’t use it at all and 32% of the laptop users have use it less frequently.
The tablet has had an overall effect on other portable gadget industries as well. The e-reader and the portable media player usage have gone down by 27% among the tablet owners. Similarly a drop of 25% has been seen among the portable game console users.
Now how much of an effect the tablets can have on the mobile industry remains to be seen.
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