ChangeWave

iOS favored over Android, even without new iPhone -- Survey

If the iPhone 5 is a hit, Apple could be poised for "extraordinary growth," says ChangeWave

Despite the continued dominance of Android in the marketplace, there are several nuggets of good news for Apple (AAPL) in the results of a ChangeWave survey of mostly (86%) American early adopter types released Monday.

The iPhone continues to get the highest satisfaction marks (70% "very satisfied") compared with Google's (GOOG) Android (50%), Microsoft's (MSFT) Windows MORE

iPad 1 earns 95% satisfaction rating

In a February ChangeWave survey, 70% were "very satisfied" and 25% "somewhat satisfied"

There were few surprises in the survey of 3,091 ChangeWave members polled just before the iPad 2 announcement.

Interest in buying a tablet among ChangeWave's early adopter types was up, to 27% from 25% in November.
Interest in buying an iPad was high -- with 82% preferring Apple's (AAPL) tablet to Motorola's (MOT) Xoom (4%), Research in Motion's (RIMM) MORE

ChangeWave: Business [hearts] iPad

Among enterprises planning to purchase tablets next quarter, 78% intend to buy iPads

There's not much good news for Apple's (AAPL) competitors in the results of a ChangeWave survey released Wednesday.

In November, ChangeWave researchers asked 1,641 corporate IT buyers about their current and future tablet purchase policies. Although only 7% of the respondents currently provide employees with tablets -- up from 1% in an August survey -- 14% plan to do MORE

E-readers: It's a two-horse race

A ChangeWave survey finds Apple's iPad gaining fast on Amazon's Kindle

The e-reader market has become a two horse race between the Amazon (AMZN) Kindle and the Apple (AAPL) iPad, according to a ChangeWave survey of 2,812 American consumers released Tuesday.

Demand is strong, with 5% of respondents saying they are Very Likely to buy an e-Reader and 10% Somewhat Likely over the next 90 days.

But the race is going Apple's MORE

Non-iPhone buyer's remorse

In a new survey, 34% of non-AT&T customers say they would have preferred an iPhone

In results that show what ChangeWave research director Paul Carton calls "the continuing threat the iPhone poses to the rest of the industry," one in three owners of non-AT&T (T) smartphones said in a new survey that they would bought Apple's (AAPL) phone if it had been available through their carrier.

Breaking down the competing devices by MORE

Why I hate my new iPad

Sure, it's shiny, sleek and cool -- the latest must-have accessory. But here's why I'm sticking with Apple's real perfect product.

By Leigh Gallagher, Assistant Managing Editor

For weeks it sat as an unchecked box on my to-do list: "buy iPad." I wanted in. I was eager to see what all the hype was about. Working in magazines for 15-plus years, I needed to see and experience this new device that promised MORE

iPad satisfaction hits 95% in October ChangeWave survey, up 4 pts. from May

Apple's "magical" device the first choice of 80% of respondents who plan to buy a tablet

The iPad, which scored a 91% satisfaction rating in ChangeWave's May survey, inched up another four points in results released Tuesday.

In this survey of 3,108 early adopter types, more of whom presumably own Apple's (AAPL) tablet computer than did six months ago, the "very satisfieds" were down 3 points to 71% and the "somewhat satisfieds" MORE

Changewave: Android gains on iPhone

Consumers future smartphone purchases have swayed heavily away from iPhone to Android.

According to recent surveys from Changewave, consumers planned to buy smartphones with Google's (GOOG)Android OS  in growing numbers in the period between June and September.  Seven percent more people plan on purchasing Android phones in September than the 30% who did in June.  That's up from single digits last year.

The iPhone  dropped 12 points from a high of MORE

ChangeWave: 31% of iPhone owners likely to switch to Verizon

Trouble ahead for AT&T if Apple does make an iPhone for Verizon

Here's a little bar graph that didn't make it into ChangeWave Research's Aug. 4 report about customer satisfaction with the iPhone 4.

Asked how likely they would be to switch carriers if Apple (AAPL) made an iPhone for Verizon (VZ), 18% chose "somewhat likely" and 13% "very likely."

And this is from respondents who already own an iPhone. Complaints about AT&T MORE

iPhone 4 survey: 17% fewer dropped calls than iPhone 3GS

ChangeWave poll finds 93% satisfied with their new iPhone, down from 99% last year.

Given the intense attention paid to the iPhone 4's antenna in the weeks after its release, the issue played a surprising small role in a survey of 213 new owners begun three days after Steve Jobs offered them a free case.

Although one in five said it was "somewhat" or a "very big" problem, 64% of the respondents MORE