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Technology: One Third of Adults now Use Tablets
34 percent of adults now say that they own a tablet computer like an Apple iPad, Samsung Galaxy Tab, Google Nexus or Kindle Fire, according to the Pew Research Center.
Kathryn Zickuhr, a research analyst for Pew, said that “with smartphones, for instance, we’ve seen a very strong correlation with age where most younger adults own smartphones, regardless of income level. But when it comes to tablets, adults in their thirties and forties are now significantly more likely than any other age group to own this device.”
Ross Rubin, principal analyst at Reticle Research, told NBC News that “tablets — at least in the post-iPad era — have been the fastest growing consumer electronics category from launch in recent history.”
Bloomberg BusinessWeek quotes MIT Technology review describes the ever-increasing speed of adoption of new technologies: “Smart phones, after a relatively fast start, have also outpaced nearly any comparable technology in the leap to mainstream use. It took landline telephones about 45 years to get from 5 percent to 50 percent penetration among U.S. households, and mobile phones took around seven years to reach a similar proportion of consumers. Smart phones have gone from 5 percent to 40 percent in about four years, despite a recession. In the comparison shown, the only technology that moved as quickly to the U.S. mainstream was television between 1950 and 1953.”
