Day: March 18, 2012
The Making of the Walmart Country :Corporate Greed or Employment Opputunities
Wal-Mart Means America [infographic]:
‘Many see the opening of a Wal-Mart as the end of all business. Local family owned industries were looked at as if they were set to be closed and Wal-Mart was the reason to blame. But upon further analysis of the infographic below, it made me wonder whether or not Wal-Mart should be praised or scowled at.
Table Content Consumption in US and European
American and European Tablet Owners More Comfortable Paying for Content | Nielsen Wire: “Even with a vast amount of free content available, tablet owners aren’t opposed to paying for the media they really want. Nielsen looked at willingness to purchase media content among tablet owners in the U.S., U.K., Germany and Italy and found that Americans are the most likely to pay for all categories of media content, except news.
Other findings:
• Most U.S. tablet owners have paid for downloaded music (62%) and books (58%) for usage on their device. Approximately half have paid for movies (51%).
• News is the top content category among the European tablet owners surveyed: 44 percent of tablet owners in Italy, 19 percent of tablet owners in the UK, and 15 percent of tablet owners in Germany say they have paid for tablet news content.
• Among the European countries, Italians are the most willing to pay for media content on their tablet.”
First 1080p Apple TV shipments begin to arrive a day early (pictures)
First 1080p Apple TV shipments begin to arrive a day early (pictures): “Customers in the U.S. who were among the first to order the new Apple TV with 1080p video output began receiving the set-top box on Thursday, a day before it is set to officially launch.
AppleInsider received its own Apple TV, and numerous readers also wrote in to share that they, too, had received their order in the mail on Thursday. The new Apple TV shipments are arriving early, while carriers are still holding shipments of the new iPad for delivery on the official launch Friday.
Orders of the new Apple TV began shipping to customers on Wednesday, and initial tracking information suggested that the $99 devices would in fact be delivered a day early. That was confirmed on Thursday morning as deliveries began around the country.
Customers who attempt to order the new Apple TV from Apple’s online store are now faces with a one to two week wait. That’s still a shorter wait than those looking to buy a new iPad have, as online orders of the third-generation tablet are estimated to ship in two to three weeks.”
‘via Blog this’
iPad Ownership Grows Among EU and US
iPad Ownership Grows Among all U.S. Income Segments: “Although upper income segments still represent the majority of iPad/iPad 2 owners in the U.S., all income segments are seeing impressive growth as more consumers* adopt iPad devices.
Nearly 900,000 iPad owners (5.6 percent of total iPad consumers) were in the <$25k household income bracket for the three-month average period ending January 2012, growing 79 percent since February 2011. Those in the $25k to <$50k bracket saw similar growth, increasing 96 percent to 1.8 million consumers. The strongest growth in iPad owners was seen in the $75k to <$100k bracket, which gained 121 percent to represent 2.8 million consumers in January 2012.
iPad owners in the $100k+ household income segment by far accounted for the largest share of users, representing 48.8 percent of today’s iPad owners.”
COMPARISON CHARTS 