The Top Use For Tablets

[nabrum]

The most popular activity on tablets? Gaming, followed closely by search and email. The two least popular activities, according to the survey, are shopping and reading e-books.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/08/the-top-use-for-tablets-stats_n_846565.html

Hey Publishers. How's that Steve Jobs Agency thingy going for ya?

A few more surveys like this to validate what people are REALLY buying their ebooks for, (K's, Nooks, Sony's, et'al), and the Agency deal collapses.

[Cardinal]

Playing Angry Birds on a larger screen is the primary reason I want an iPad, lol.   

Sadly, I don't think the survery will collapse the Agency model.

[TraceyC/FL]

Well, they didn't ask me....

Ebooks are in my top 3 for my iPad uses, and I don't even own angry birds. I go in spurts with gaming... Got me some Atari Retro Love yesterday... I think centipede is a compelling reason to buy an iPad!

[mooshie78]

I primarily use my iPad to read.....but not e-books.  I read a lot of news in news apps, and read pdfs of scholarly journal articles in goodreader as those things stink on the Kindle (even on the DX as it's too slow in scrolling and zooming in and out and some of those things are better in color).

I also use it for games, videos, taking notes in meetings in the notes app and synching into Evernote.  I use it as my calendar pda now by synching the calendar app with my Google Calendar (my old Palm Pilot was on it's last legs).  Checking the weather in the morning.  Video calls with my girlfriend who's out of the country etc.

So it's a very useful gadget for me.  It would be even more useful if it has a file system, usb drive support and a tablet version of MS Office so I could do more work on it when traveling etc.  But I'll probably have to wait for the forthcoming MS tablet OS rumored for late 2012 to get most of that stuff.

But I'll still do my novel reading on the Kindle 3 as it's just better suited to that purpose.  I'll occasionally read on the Kindle app in the office etc. as I often have my iPad with me since I use it for work, and never carry my Kindle around unless traveling out of town.  But that's pretty much it in terms of reading e-books on it.

[The Hooded Claw]

My main use for the ipad is web surfing. I do a Lot of that from my recliner over wifi.  Main secondary use is gaming.  Though Netflix and video comes close behind.  I've read on it twice in over a year of ownership, once just to try it out when the ipad was new, and once on an airliner when it was the best thing handy.  I took it out to try reading just a few days ago and went for my Kindle in a matter of just minutes!

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[VondaZ]

Reading e-books may have come in second to the bottom of the activities surveyed, but it still came in with 46% of users reading e-books on the device. If that survey is representative of the general iPad user population, I think that is pretty good for a device that can easily distract you with games and Internet access and that probably appeals largely to the gaming crowd (given that gaming came in at the top of the list). If nearly half of all iPad users are reading on it, I say that is pretty good news for reading in general. I wouldn't have expected it to be that high, figuring it caters to a different audience than dedicated e-Readers.