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The growing number of tablet owners are developing an increased appetite for news, according to a new study from Pew’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
- Tablet owners spend more time with news from more sources.
The survey measures how many smartphone and tablet owners use the devices to keep up with news, and how they consume news. One key finding is that after email, getting news is the second most popular activity on mobile devices.
Another key finding: Almost one-third of people who acquire tablets find themselves reading more news from more sources than before.
What they’re reading is also interesting. Almost three-fourths of tablet news readers consumed in-depth news articles at least sometimes, with 19 percent saying they do so daily.
A strong majority of tablet readers also said they read at least two-to-three articles in a sitting, many of which they just came across while browsing headlines.
- Tablet owners read in-depth articles, and explore articles they weren’t initially seeking.
Most of the people (60 percent) who read in-depth articles on tablets said they get them from just a few specific publications they read regularly, and almost all of those people (90 percent) look at those favorite publications at least once a week.
Overall, the study paints a bright picture of the news consumer’s behavior in the emerging tablet market:
News is a large part of what people do with their mobile devices. Fully 64% of tablet owners get news on their devices at least weekly, including 37% who do so daily. The numbers are similar for smartphone owners â€" 62% consume news weekly or more and 36% do so daily. For both tablets and smartphones, news is among the top activities people engage in on the devices.
The amount of time spent on these devices getting news is also substantial. Mobile news consumers spend an average of 50 minutes or more getting news on their tablet or smartphone on a typical day.
The introduction of smaller, cheaper 7-inch tablets has expanded and diversified the market in the past year, the study says. A similar study in 2011 found the iPad accounted for 81 percent of the market, while this year’s study has it down to 52 percent. Android-powered tablets, led by the Kindle Fire, have increased to 48 percent in the survey. And this data was collected before the release of Google’s Nexus 7 tablet or Amazon’s newer Kindle Fire HD.
The Android tablet owners, however, are less likely than iPad owners to use the devices each day. The study found 29 percent of Android tablet owners got news daily, compared to 43 percent of iPad owners.
One other lesson to keep in mind from the survey is that “mobile†news consumers are actually not that mobile.
Eighty-five percent of tablet users and 58 percent of smartphone users said they tend to get news on the device while at home.
“In short, while mobile technology allows people to get news on the go, relatively few people do so,†the study says. “The lure of home as a place for news consumption is also linked to the findings about when people get their news. Even though mobile devices make it easier to get news whenever you want, mobile device owners still seem to have habitual times of day when they consume news. And for about half of mobile news users on each device, it is just a single time each day.â€
The study also analyzes the revenue conditions of the mobile news market, and my Poynter colleague Rick Edmonds writes about that in a separate post.
One notable piece of data sheds light on the questions of apps vs. websites. The findings reinforce last year’s analysis that while more users prefer websites than apps, the app users consume more news and are more likely to pay for it.
- The smaller number of users who prefer news apps to websites spend more time with news, read more news and are more likely to pay for news.
Some caveats
As with any questionnaire-based survey, we should have some skepticism about the respondents’ ability to precisely describe their true behavioral patterns. Asking people to recollect when, where or how they get news is less precise than directly recording their behavior through observation, diaries or analytics.
The survey questioned a random sample of 9,513 adults. The full about mobile news consumption was completed by 1,928 mobile device users, including 810 tablet news users and 1,075 smartphone news users. The margin of error is plus or minus 3.4 percentage points for tablet owners and 5.4 percentage points for tablet news users. The margin of error is 2.4 percentage points for smartphone owners and 4.1 for smartphone news users.
Earlier: 17 percent of Americans got news on a mobile device yesterday (Poynter)
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Cook said in a letter posted online Friday that Apple “fell short†in its commitment to make the best possible products for its customers.
- New Apple iPhone 5 maps app frustrates users
“Everything we do at Apple is aimed at making our products the best in the world. We know that you expect that from us, and we will keep working non-stop until Maps lives up to the same incredibly high standard,†Cook said.
The Cupertino, Calif., company had released an update to its iPhone and iPad operating system last week that replaced Google Maps with Apple’s own map application. But users complained that the new maps have fewer details, lack public transit directions and misplace landmarks, among other problems. Users have flocked to social media to complain and make fun of the map’s glitches.
It was an unusual misstep for Apple, the world’s most valuable company. Apple prides itself on releasing best-of-class products. Cook pointed out that the more people use Apple’s maps, the better it will get over time as people give feedback.
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The world is going to be a little stranger from next month, when the first tablets and hybrids running Windows 8 turn up in stores everywhere with the promise of a touch interface that rivals the iPad and Android tablets.
On the shelves will be devices with screens that slide out, swivel and snap back to turn into iPad-like machines. Then, there are conventional clamshell-shaped laptops that come with touch screens. All will be incredibly light â€" some less than 1kg â€" to rival even the currently skinny ultrabooks.
Yet, despite the most innovative designs in years from the likes of Asus, Dell and Samsung, will consumers bite? Will they junk their iPads and fat laptops now and go for a single device that does it all?
Here are five reasons we think Windows 8 tablets and hybrids make for a great buy, and a couple of reasons why you should stick to a tablet plus laptop.
Why buy:
1. Everything in one machine
This is the most attractive premise of Windows 8 tablets and hybrids. Essentially, they are PCs built with all the convenience of tablets but with the full features of a laptop. With one sleek device in your bag, or under your arm, you’ll be able to do just about anything your bulky PC currently does, and with the convenience of a touch screen.
You can be creating and presenting Powerpoint slides to clients, then returning to the office to dock it with a screen and keyboard for a full desktop experience.
For insurance agents and other mobile workers, these really portable machines cannot have come sooner. They have a touch screen to quickly bring up Powerpoint slides to show a client at a cafe, while also the flexibility to fire up their company’s traditional Windows program to sign up his policy.
2. No more compromises
Anyone who has used a tablet will be familiar with its convenience â€" and limitations. Where’s the VLC player to view all your favourite movies? Why do some websites look funny when shown on a tablet? Can I plug in a USB flash drive to expand my storage?
Often, the answer is no for tablets. And that’s where Windows-based tablets will have an edge. Essentially PCs, they come with all the features that tablets often try to offer through a workaround, like third-party USB adapters or apps that make Web content look attractive for the touch screen.
So, why not just get a machine that comes with all those features? Even tablets running on Intel’s low-power Atom chip, like Dell’s Latitude 10, for example, have a USB port that lets you hook up a memory drive worth of movies. With VLC â€" or any PC software player on it â€" you don’t have to worry about spending hours converting your HD movies to fit your tablet’s small storage space and lack of processing power.
Unlike previous Windows versions, Windows 8 is made for touch. And the interface is very fast. While Internet Explorer may not be the king of browsers any more on the desktop, it absolutely flies on a Windows 8 tablet. Try loading a website on it, and it becomes clear you don’t have to scale things down or avoid loading any multimedia files. It gives you the full-featured Web, which is a much better experience than on other tablet browsers.
3. A familiar system
Don’t underestimate how this often helps incumbent technologies. A lot of people we know already use an iPad-plus-keyboard to do work on the go, sure. But for a lot more people using PCs everywhere to send e-mail, create reports and get work done, Windows is still the de facto software. That goes for Office as well, and we know that runs best obviously on PCs (and Macs), but not on Android or iOS, despite the availability of third-party apps.
There’s another incentive: familiar versions of your Windows programs will now work easily. There’s no need to look for a stripped down version of Photoshop on the app store, for example.
4. Sleek designs
They are not for everyone, sure, but the latest tablets and hybrids offer a wide variety of choices. Dell’s XPS Duo 12, for example, has one of the most eye-catching designs, with a screen that pivots into action. Then, there’s Lenovo’s Ideapad Yoga, which has a screen that can be flipped all the way back to become a tablet. That’s not to mention more traditional designs, like Acer’s excellent Aspire S7, which takes a very thin ultrabook and adds a touch screen to it.
In other words, users are going to be spoilt for choice. The only worry is that they won’t be able to differentiate one from the other, given the vast array of hardware that is coming out. It’s no longer just choosing an Intel Core i7 versus a Core i5. There are Atom-based machines as well as those running Arm-based CPUs, not to mention the different versions of Windows.
5. Great touch experience
We have to say this to anyone who hasn’t tried Windows 8 on a touch screen â€" it’s really zippy. The biggest problem we see with the OS is people getting real uncomfortable with the new interface when they have to switch back and forth to the old Windows desktop.
But on tablets and touch screens? Windows 8 runs really well. The interface is zippy without any hint of lag and some of the early apps that Microsoft has thrown in, say, on travel, are excellent. The only worry is whether its app store will attract enough developers.
Why not:
1. Prices will fall
The reason why the PC industry has succeeded so spectacularly for decades is the constant competition and low cost. That means you don’t have to give up one device for another. If competition drives down prices, as expected, then hey, what’s not to like about having a Windows tablet or hybrid for work plus an iPad or Nexus 7 for couch surfing? Too bad for Microsoft, of course, which means you haven’t really changed your habits in their favour.
2. Cloud services mean devices don’t matter
We’ve heard this one before, but these days, it really rings true. Ever since e-mail became a Web-based service in the mid-1990s, there has been no turning back from putting more of the grunt work of number crunching and storage online, and simply accessing the results on less power-hungry portable devices.
This trend is not going to make PCs unnecessary â€" there are still some tasks done well locally, like video editing, plus many places on the globe still don’t have reliable Internet access â€" but it will make the end device less important.
There are still limits to what the browser can do, but today, it offers anything from rich, online games to e-shopping, and who knows in future what little processing power a device may need? Simpler, less powerful tablets could trump the heavy metal performance that PCs are known for.
Are you looking forward to a Windows 8 tablet, laptop or hybrid device?
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