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A Third Of American Adults Now Own A Tablet - Interesting 2013 Study and Demographics

6/10/2013

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Very insightful PDF report by Pewinternet.org about the US demographics and usage numbers of tablets, which may help Australian marketers to better understand and target tablet users as well...

Demographic groups most likely to own tablets include:
  • Those living in households earning at least $75,000 per year (56%), compared with lower income brackets
  • Adults ages 35-44 (49%), compared with younger and older adults
  • College graduates (49%), compared with adults with lower levels of education

Trends in tablet ownership
Almost every major demographic group experienced significant year-to-year growth in tablet ownership 
between April 2012 and May 2013. In several cases, groups that already had the highest levels of tablet 
ownership saw the greatest percentage point increases over the past year:
  • Among parents with minor children living at home, tablet ownership rose from 26% in April 2012 to 50% in May 2013 (an increase of 24 percentage points).
  • Tablet ownership among adults living in households making at least $75,000 per year rose from 34% to 56% (22 percentage points).
  • Tablet ownership among college graduates rose from 28% to 49% (21 percentage points).
Download Study as PDF here
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Interview with Daniel Reyes, the Head of Technology at brandsExclusive - 47% mobile users showing highest conversion rates through mobile apps

5/29/2013

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1. What are the elements of the mobile strategy of brandsExclusive?
The first stage is to provide the best mobile interface to our service on the devices they use today. The focus has been on iOS apps first as our audience is heavily skewed to iOS devices over other. We have also provided a html5 mobile website for other devices. This includes providing feature parity on our apps with our website so that customers need to never visit our website if they desire.  

The second stage of our strategy is to go above and beyond to provide interfaces and features that are not possible in a desktop browser environment, taking advantage of the unique benefits mobile devices provide.

It's our belief that mobile devices are the future for e-commerce, we estimated last year that by the end of 2013 most of our visits would be on mobile devices. 

2. Please share a few metrics about your mobile offerings with us e.g. how many mobile users do you have? How many app downloads?
In the last 30 days, 47% of visits have been using mobile devices, approximately 30% being on our dedicated iOS apps for iPhone and iPad. In terms of downloads we are in the top 10 in the lifestyle category on the app store, over 1200 app reviews with average score of 4.5/5.

One interesting aspect is that sales conversions are the highest on our apps, with far and away the most time spent. Customers are highly engaged and also making purchases. The notion that customers still prefer to checkout on desktop browsers and only browse on mobile is not true with us.

3. What is your advice for other online retailers that are considering to build an app or a mobile site?
The answer to app first or mobile website first is not the same for everyone. We have found that building native iOS apps are in fact easier than mobile websites where cross-browser issues are a burden. Not only are they easier if you have iOS resources available but provide a far better user experience.
For us going app first was an easier choice as our audience was heavily skewed to iOS 2 years ago and even now.

So from our point of view, should definitely do both if you are in the eCommerce space. Perhaps mobile website first if starting today, but a dedicated iPhone/iPad app following closely.


4. What are the mobile trends you see in the next few years?
Quite simply, majority audience being on smartphones, feature phones to quickly disappear for most, and using those devices to connect with more people and services than ever before.

Devices to provide more contextual experiences fuelled by being an extension of our senses, those senses to continue to expand, the experiences to get better. Wearable computing to become more mainstream.

5. What are some of the coolest apps you have on your iPhone?
  • Letterpress gets plenty of my attention at the moment. Very engaging, but also an intuitive user interface
  • Triage, makes cleaning your inbox so fast and easy.
  • Circa News, clean and simple interface for reading news.
  • Foxtel Go, for live sport.
  • RunKeeper

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5 Important Tips How To Use Windows 8

5/4/2013

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I bought a Lenovo Thinkpad for my colleague the other day and it came with the new pre-installed Windows 8 of course, but the box did not include any installation booklet or DVD and even during the setup sequence there was no proper on-screen tutorial... etc. Wow, I thought... Microsoft must have nailed this one and they must be confident in heaving created a very easy to use software. They had promised a lot after all in making Windows 8 an intuitive operating system that worked especially well on tablets and devices with a touchscreen.

Well, I must admit, that I freaked out www.mobile-future.com.au/2013/05/5-important-tips-how-to-useat first when I realised there was no START button on the lower left hand corner any more, so the first thing I did was to google for a program that would re-install it. There are a lot of software hacks out there, but after testing a few I would recommend against using them, because interestingly enough after then dealing with Windows 8 for a few hours, I started to like it and once you figure out the basics of the new system, it is pretty easy to use. So here they are:

5 Important Tips How To Use Windows 8:

  1. Active corners of the screen: It is very important to know that all corners of the screen are sensitive menu areas to navigate your Windows 8. Just move your mouse into each corner and see what happens, e.g. on the lower left you get back to the desktop, on the upper left you can see your open windows and on the right hand side you can find the search, settings, etc....
  2. How to get to your settings, WiFi, etc.: The easiest and quickest way to get to your settings is to move the mouse to the right corner which brings out the menu with the search field on top. Use this search field heavily to really get to anything you need. Just make sure you also pre-select the most appropriate option below the search box, e.g. "settings". This will probably become your most important feature to navigate between the various features of the operating system. 
  3. Old desktop view: There should be a tile on your start screen labelled "Desktop". This one will bring you back onto the "old" desktop which gave me great relieve, because I could use e.g. my Windows Explorer for file management purposes as I did before.
  4. Favourites on your start screen: The default has many Microsoft products on your start screen. You can easily get rid of them and exchange them with your favourite programs by simply clicking on to them with the right mouse. Do the same over the background of the start screen and you get to all your programs to choose from.
  5. Apps: Hey, Windows 8 now has a proper integration with third-party apps. You will find them by also clicking on the right mouse part while hovering your mouse over the start screen background and you will see "all apps" on the lower right.

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