by Pivot
Tag: Apple
How Disruptive Will $50 Amazon Fire Tablet Be?
The $50 Amazon Fire tablet, priced markedly below an average vendor selling price of $323, is causing disruption in the tablet market, particularly among tablet OEMs that lack content delivery platforms or channels, ABI Research…
comScore: U.S. Smartphone Penetration Nears 80 Percent
Nearly 200 million people across the U.S. owned smartphones during the three months ending in January, a 79.1% U.S. smartphone penetration rate, according to comScore’s latest MobiLens and Mobile Metrix. Apple’s smartphones continued to be…
Smartphone Voice Assistant Survey: Satisfaction Nears 50%
Use of smartphone conversational voice assistants, such as Apple’s Siri and OK Google appears to have reached a tipping point in 2015, according to smartphone voice assistant survey from MindMeld. Over half of voice assistant…
Intent to Purchase Wearables: IDC Finds Function/ Fashion Gap
Tech savvy, highly social and style-conscious – that’s the basic profile of potential wearable device purchasers, according to new market research about intent to purchase wearables from IDC. Wearable tech developers have yet to strike…
Report: Smart Home Satisfaction Hampered by Lack of Interoperability
Smart home satisfaction is hampered by a lack of interoperability, according to new research from Argus Insight. The market research company compiled more than 576,000 consumer smart home device and application reviews in producing the…
Mobile Proximity Payment Forecast: Over 1 Billion Users by 2019
Ovum has issued a bullish mobile proximity payment forecast. The category is the smallest segment of the mobile payments market, but the fastest growing, the research firm notes. The number of people worldwide using near-field…
IDC: Wearable Device Shipments Hit 78 Million in One Year
People bought many, many more wearable tech devices in 4Q and for 2015 as a whole, according to the latest market research report from IDC. Vendors shipped 27.4 million units during 4Q – up 126.9%…
Smartphone Upgrade Trends: Over 30% Keep Phones More Than Two Years
Smartphones are now present in 86% of U.S. broadband households and have reached similar levels of penetration in mature Western European markets, according to new market research from Parks Associates released in advance of the…
IDC: Tablet Sales Drop to 206 Million, Down 10% From Last Year
Holiday-season sales weren’t enough to avoid a disappointing 4Q 2015 for tablet shipments, which declined 13.7% year-over-year (YoY). Tablet shipments totaled 206.8 million for 2015 in its entirety, a 10.1% drop from 2014’s 230.1 million,…
Flurry: Phablet Market Share Grows to 27% of New Activations
Larger screen phablets have proved popular among consumers despite initial skepticism among industry pundits. To wit: phablets accounted for nearly 3 in 10 mobile device activations (27 percent) in the week prior to Christmas, according…
Parks Finds 31 Percent of Broadband Homes With Streaming Media Players
Streaming media players (SMPs) were present in 3 in 10 (31 percent) of U.S. broadband households as of end-3Q 2015, up from 27 percent at the start of the year. That’s poised to increase, as…
Cyber Monday Smartphone Shopping Stats: Over One Quarter of Purchases Now by Mobile
More people made Cyber Monday purchases via smartphones and tablets than ever before, according to market data from Branding Brand. Online purchases via smartphones and tablets accounted for 27 percent of the Cyber Monday total,…