This recent short report from japan.internet.com on a survey by goo Research into IT device security, the second time they have conducted this survey, the first being in November 2012.
Demographics
Between the 7th and 12th of March 2012 1,033 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.5% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.7% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, and 27.9% aged fifty or older.
Here’s a scam virus advert on a tablet:
I seem to remember translating the previous survey, but I cannot find it on the site. Perhaps I got half-way through and decided it wasn’t interesting enough to be published?
Anyway, I’m curious why tablet security is increasing but smartphone staying static. One factor in the tablet rise is no doubt due to Android increasing market share, and curiously enough if all the extra 36 tablet owners in Q1SQ were non-iOS users, and all of them used security software, then the rise from 42.1% to 55.2% is explained, but I’m sure that’s just a numerical fluke. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on the seventh regular survey by goo Research into mobile devices, with the focus this time on tablets.
Demographics
Between the 4th and 9th of March 2013 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.6% of the sample were male, 13.5% in their teens, 15.8% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 17.4% in their forties, and 32.0% aged fifty or older.
I really do feel that tablet use is increasing; on my commute there is invariably at least one person using a tablet, and the most common uses appear to be general surfing or reading. Today I say my first person running LINE chatRead the rest of this entry »
Between the 8th and 12th of February 2013 21,789 internet users completed an internet-based questionnaire. For the final report, the data obtained from the survey was weighted according to Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications statistics on internet users in 2011.
This is a survey that I hope goo Research will make into a series, their look at tablet devices, as reported by japan.internet.com.
Demographics
Between the 1st and 3rd of February 2013 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.8% of the sample were male, 16.2% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.3% aged sixty or older.
Note that the one-sixth in the title refers to the one-sixth of the population that are members of goo Research, so there might be a positive bias towards tablet owners, but on the other hand one can imagine reasons why there might also be a negative bias.
A tablet is something I’d like to buy for the house for the times when I cannot be bothered booting up my netbook just to check the headlines or the like. The seven-inch Google Nexus tablet seems like a good fit for what I need. Read the rest of this entry »
japan.internet.com recently reported on goo Research’s sixth regular survey into mobile devices, which shows for the first time a reversal in smartphone growth.
Demographics
Between the 22nd and 25th of October 2012 1,077 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.3% in their teens, 17.9% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.3% in their forties, and 27.9% aged fifty or older.
I heard from my wife that (sorry for the inaccuracy, but it’s the best I can do!) that a TV show recently said that according to a survey, about 40% of women (in their thirties or all ages, she wasn’t quite clear) who had smartphones either kept their feature phones, wanted to get an extra feature phone, or wanted to ditch their smartphones. This survey is perhaps the first indication of this trend that What Japan Thinks has picked up. I’ll be keen to see how the next survey looks, especially that although docomo’s summer 2012 line-up did not include any feature phones, their winter 2012-2013 line-up includes four bog-standard last-gen iMode clamshells from four different Japanese manufacturers. Read the rest of this entry »
MMD, Mobile Marketing Data Laboratory, recently published a report on a survey they conducted themselves into tablet ownership and purchase views.
Demographics
Between the 25th and 29th of October 2012 17,559 people, presumably members of the MMD monitor panel completed a presumably private survey. No further demographics were provided.
I’m sort-of thinking about a Nexus 7; it’s nice and cheap, and pretty good according to reviews by friends. I’m interested to see if the Japanese manufacturers exit the consumer tablet market; Sony at least offer a different design than just a slab, and I was disappointed to see that the Panasonic Eluga Live tablet doesn’t even merit a mention, although the 90,000 yen price tag might have something to do with it… Read the rest of this entry »
A recent survey by goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looked at mobile devices, the fourth regular survey in the series. This report focused on tablet computer use.
Demographics
Between the 11th and 15th of May 2012 1,073 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.5% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.2% in the thirties, 16.0% in their forties, and 28.0% aged fifty or older.
The big news recently in tablets is the official announcement of Microsoft Surface, so in lieu of a graph, here’s a video:
Mobile and computer-based web site viewing, one of goo Ranking’s regular surveys, took an interesting turn in this report on japan.internet.com, where they described the result of specific questions to tablet owners. However, the sample size was tiny so the data cannot really be trusted.
Demographics
Between the 12th and 14th of March 2012 1,093 mobile phone-using members of the goo Research monitor panel completed a private mobile internet-based questionnaire. 59.3% of the sample were female, 3.5% in their teens, 26.4% in their twenties, 33.2% in their thirties, 25.8% in their forties, and 11.1% aged fifty or older. Note that the survey includes smartphone users, and would also include tablet users who had a mobile phone contract attached to theirs.
I’ve considered getting a tablet myself, and if I were to I’d probably choose the four top reasons as listed below! Read the rest of this entry »
My last smartphone survey for the week is this from goo Research, reported on by japan.internet.com, looking at mobile devices, the second in a regular series.
Demographics
Between the 26th and 29th of October 2011 1,085 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 52.9% of the sample were male, 16.4% in their teens, 18.2% in their twenties, 21.4% in their thirties, 16.4% in their forties, and 27.6% aged fifty or older.
I was looking at docomo smartphones and tablets today, and I was quite surprised how cheap they are! There’s a new Panasonic P-01D out with a 3.2 inch screen that’s just about 10,000 yen to upgrade to, the 7 inch Galaxy Tab is just 3,000 yen if you pick it up as a second phone, and even a top-end 10 inch water-resistant Honeycomb tablet with LTE 4G is just a touch over 20,000 yen. The offers last until Christmas, so don’t leave it too late! I’m very tempted by the tiny Pana I mentioned, and if I use my saved-up points I can get it for just about free! If I can set up a firewall or router or the like on the phone, I can force it to use wi-fi all the time and avoid packet charges, making it in theory cheaper than my current feature phone. Here’s a video of it in action – I’ll give the pink a miss this time…
This recent survey by goo Research and reported on by japan.internet.com into tablets produced some very surprising results, showing Windows and Android to be closer to iOS (iPad OS) than I would have expected.
Demographics
Between the 30th of August and the 2nd of September 2011 1,087 members of the goo Research online monitor group completed a private internet-based questionnaire. 53.0% of the sample were male, 16.7% in their teens, 18.3% in their twenties, 21.2% in their thirties, 16.2% in their forties, 15.5% in their fifties, and 12.1% aged sixty or older.
The figures from Europe and the US suggest that it is only the iPad that sells, with at least 80% of the market, so are things really that different in Japan? Furthermore, where are the 8 Windows XP tablets coming from? The figures here seem just a bit too unusual to be reliable. Read the rest of this entry »
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