Understanding Apple Inc. (AAPL) – Report: iPad Increases Dominance

We do need to keep a couple of things in mind here.

First, this is a usage measure, not a sales measure. There can be reasons why the data might be skewed in Apple’s favor. It could be that there are many happy tablet users who spend little time browsing the Internet. They might be watching movies, playing games, or reading books, or running other apps instead. Still, these are all uses that iPad owners can do as well, so it is hard to see why there would be a huge difference in usage profiles. Furthermore, web browsing is one of the most popular activities on a tablet, so I cannot see that the data would be greatly skewed.

Secondly, this data is only for the USA and Canada. Adoption of Android is stronger outside of these areas, particularly since some of these hit much lower price points than Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) does.

Still, the new report from Chitka shows that Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL) iPad is maintaining an extremely strong dominance in the tablet field. Here is one place for optimism for the share holders.

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