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Microsoft Surface is not doing so hot, apparently
UBS analyst Brent Thill estimates Microsoft has sold only 1 million Surface RT tablets,reported by Business Insider. He had previously estimated 2 million. To put those figures in perspective, Apple is estimated to sell in the neighborhood of 20 million iPads for the same period. [more]
(Source: wilkinsky.us)
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When Apple released the iPad, media organizations rushed to launch robust native applications for the device. Given the amount of traffic publishers are seeing from mobile-web browsers, coupled with improvements in HTML5, the success of the Financial Times’s mobile web app, the difficulties of constantly iterating for new versions of iOS, and the rise of Android and other mobile software platforms, does it make sense for publishers to continue to invest in native apps for tablets and smartphones?
(Source: Mashable)
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The iPad mini hasn't wrapped up the "cheapest tablet" market by any stretch of the imagination. But the "best small tablet" market? Consider it captured.
(Source: wilkinsky.us)
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Which will win? Native apps or HTML5?
A recent report from BI Intelligence explains why we think HTML5 will win out, and what an HTML future will look like for consumers, developers, and brands.
Here’s how HTML5 will eventually win out:
- The most popular types of apps will be early adapters: HTML5 is particularly useful for media apps and “access” apps (those that let you access an existing accounts via a mobile device, such as banks).This is becauseapps that display text, images and video and monetize through ads and subscriptions can be done more cheaply and effectively through HTML5.
- The increasing prevalence of “shell apps” will push things along: These are apps that have a native “shell” so they can get in the app stores, but where the entire functionality is done via HTML5. These “hybrid” apps get the best of both worlds and mean more developing resources will shift to HTML5 over time. These “wrapper” apps will also end up on the web as HTML5 improves.
- HTML5 will eventually fulfill its promise as a classic disruptive technology: It’s currently less good than native apps at lots of things. But the technology is improving. And it is cheaper to produce HTML5 apps than native apps. Over time, the new, cheaper technology of HTML5 will get better and better, and as it does it will start to eat the rest of the market.
- But, it will still take a while: HTML5 comes from a consortium, which means the technology will evolve slowly. It still isn’t ready for prime time, as there are many things that HTML5 apps just can’t do right now — as Mark Zuckerberg confirmed in his first post-IPO interview with TechCrunch. So HTML5 will likely progressively replace apps as the feature set improves, starting with media and “access” apps and ending with games, which require the richness of native softwaremore than any other app type.
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52% of children 5-8 use iPad
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How are people using their Tablets?
How do you use yours?
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iPad Use Expected to Nearly Double This Year
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Introducing the affordable NoteSlate - The whiteboard iPad [more]
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How the iPad Is Revolutionizing Local Businesses
“When you are carrying around a tablet, you are carrying a gateway to the cloud,” said Nebula CEO and former NASA CTO Chris Kemp in an interview last year. This is something that innovators and enterprises have known for some time. The average small business owner? Not so much.
Consumers just want things to work. Local businesses just want them to work, but also be cost efficient.
This is where tablets are poised to disrupt the entire POS industry. They are cheap, collect data on customers’ purchases and make that data easily accessible across any type of computing system. They can be used to make payments, take surveys, provide coupons and notify consumers of offers.
The best part for local businesses: Tablets are a lot cheaper than traditional POS systems.
(Source: wilkinsky.us)
