Last week, research firm Parks Associates revealed results of a survey it conducted that found that 51 percent of U.S. consumers prefer the Kindle Fire to the iPad 2. However, in the same study, the company found that 62 percent of respondents who were "most likely to purchase a tablet by the end of the year" were planning to buy an iPad 2, compared to just 38 percent of consumers who said they would buy the Kindle Fire.
From the article, "Kindle family soars on Black Friday, but unit sales still elusive" by Don Reisinger
There's simply no reason for Apple to jump into the crowded low-margin battlefield of smart TVs when it can sell its hardware at gross margins exceeding 40%. Steve Jobs reportedly once told employe...
The over-the-top devil is in the details. While OTT services are rapidly rising in use, so is consumers’ savvy in piggybacking onto their friends’ and family’s OTT subscriptions. More than 57%...
New research shows that TV homes with broadband are increasingly signing onto over-the-top TV (OTT) service -- with and without traditional pay TV services. In the U.S., 57% of current traditiona...
In related news, Parks Associates released its new report finding that 1.6 billion people worldwide watch online video on connected devices. That’s more than 20% of the world’s population. Seem...
