Wanted For Christmas – The iPad or an iPhone 4
VoucherCodes.co.uk, a UK website conducted a recent survey showing 37 percent of 3,000 UK consumers want an iPad under the tree this Christmas, making it the most popular consumer electronics device. In second place? The iPhone 4, which grabbed 27 percent of the vote.
In a similar survey in the US the Consumer Electronics Association published their data on anticipated Holiday season sales this morning. Laptops are top of the tree for under the tree this year, while the iPad is in at number two.
Interestingly, the CEA also reveals that while ‘happiness’ is something most adults most desire for Christmas, the iPad is the third most wanted thing — consumers seem to want it more than clothes, good health and family together.
In a report released today, Gartner predicts 54.8 million tablets will be sold in 2011. Apple currently holds 95 percent marketshare in this sector.
This data comes on the back of a recent survey by Broadbandgenie that confirms, based on a poll of over 1,300 visitors, over 60% said in the UK the iPad wasn’t worth the minimum £429 base price. In the US the same product/spec can be had for $499 that’s £309.
Joanne Carter
Joanne Carter is a British photographer, photography journalist, editor and curator and the founder and editorial director of TheAppWhisperer.com, an independent international photography publication established in 2009.Her journalism, criticism and commentary have appeared in The Times, The Sunday Times, The Guardian, Financial Times, BBC, Vogue Italia, LensCulture, Popular Photography, Android Magazine, NikonPro, DPReview, Which Digital Camera and Which Camera. She has lectured internationally on photography and mobile art, served as a juror for international photography awards, and exhibited her own photographic work across the UK, Europe, South Korea and the United States.Alongside her editorial work, Joanne's photographic and postgraduate research explores death, grief, memory, representation and social inequality through contemporary photography, participatory practice and visual research methods, with the longer-term aim of developing this work through doctoral research.Through TheAppWhisperer, she continues to publish independent photography journalism spanning contemporary photographic practice, mobile imaging, photographic apps, computational photography and emerging imaging technologies.Joanne is available for editorial commissions, photography projects, judging, curatorial work, speaking engagements, consultancy and selected collaborations.
