And 43% spend more time on their tablet computer than on their laptop or desktop PC
Source: AdMob
This chart is from a survey of more than 1,400 tablet computer users conducted by AdMob, the online advertising company that Google (GOOG) snatched away from Apple (AAPL) in 2009. I missed the report when it was released last week. The extent to which tablets have cut into PC use is surprising.
"I think this trend is really important," wrote reader David Emery, who spotted it on TUAW. "If it continues then computing is in for a huge sea change."
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Philip Elmer-DeWitt - Jan 28, 2011 9:18 PM ET
As Android adoption passes that of iPhone, some big developers are opting to build for Android first and iPhone later.
Android activation rates are at 160,000 per day according to Google (GOOG) at their earnings call last week. Those numbers look to skyrocket further with big launches of the Verizon Droid X and Samsung Galaxy lines (which passed a million alone, in its first three weeks).
That activation rate is already significantly MORE
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| Bank of America Corp... | 7.95 | -0.16 | -1.97% |
| Microsoft Corp | 31.27 | -0.17 | -0.54% |
| Ford Motor Co | 12.28 | -0.25 | -2.00% |
| General Electric Co | 19.39 | 0.17 | 0.88% |
| Citigroup Inc | 32.36 | -1.00 | -3.00% |
| Index | Last | Change | % Change |
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| Dow | 12,938.67 | -27.02 | -0.21% |
| Nasdaq | 2,933.17 | -15.40 | -0.52% |
| S&P 500 | 1,357.66 | -4.55 | -0.33% |
| Treasuries | 2.00 | -0.04 | -1.96% |
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