tablet and smartphone penetration
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tab le t & smar tphone data from the US communication & entertainment Insights report
Tablets present in m i l l i o n US households
Tablet penetration i n c r e a s e d from 23% a year ago to 38% currently
Tablets c o n t i n u e t o b e m o r e p o p u l a r among households
that are younger, more affluent and have children.
44% 50% 45% 63% 57%
18 to 34 35 to 44 $50K to $75K $75K + Households with
Children
Tablet Ownership
44.9
S m a r t p h o n e p e n e t r a t i o n l e v e l s o f f
Smartphone penetration i n c r e a s e d s i n c e Q 3 ’ 1 2 ( )
but has r e m a i n e d steady since Q1’13 (58%).
Considering that the d e m o g r a p h i c p r o f i l e s of smartphone and tablet owners
are very similar, it is possible that some of the growth in tablet ownership has occurred at
the expense of smartphones.
Smartphones are not ubiquitous among t a b l e t o w n e r s . Almost two in ten
tablet owners (17%) d o n o t a l s o o w n a s m a r t p h o n e .
46% 58% V S