iPad Raises Tablet Craze

Since Apple reported that it had sold 3.27 million iPads in the third fiscal quarter, a lot of iPad competition products have come out one after another. It is not difficult to find that most of the competing products contain the word "Pad" because companies are hoping to take Apple's successful ride to make their products as relevant as possible to Apple.

In a report released last week, market research company Forrester pointed out that HP will soon launch WebOS and Windows 7 tablet PCs, Dell will launch Streak Tablet PCs, Toshiba will launch Smart Pads, and rumored that Acer and Samsung have also introduced tablet PCs. Lenovo's entry-level tablet PCs are named LePad.

Forrester said in the report that through an online survey conducted in May and June of this year, the iPad’s popularity among consumers is increasing. A survey of more than 4,000 respondents in May showed that 83% of respondents had heard of the iPad, and in June that number soared to 95%.

In contrast, in the survey, 25% of respondents said they had never heard of Amazon's Kindle, and the Kindle has been on the market for 3 years.

The author of the report, Sarah Rotman Epps, wrote: “The social influence of buyers has helped boost iPad awareness. More than 20% of iPad buyers may use Facebook, and more than 40% of iPad buyers may With Twitter, the number of friends and followers is higher than the number of U.S. netizens."

Forrester said that among the respondents, 1.3% said they already own an iPad and another 3.8% want to buy an iPad. Epps wrote: "The iPad enters the mainstream consumer electronics category in only one quarter of its time."