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Nearly a third of iPad owners haven't installed a single app.

I don't play games and mainly use mine for web browsing, watching Netflix and mail. So while I,ve got 4 or 5 web browsers from the App store, that's about it. So I tend to believe the article myself.
 
I don't buy the survey. Graphs and charts don't legitimize any sampling. Also, didn't Apple's data suggest otherwise?
 
spammerhamster said:
Nearly a third of iPad owners jailbroke their iPad.

There. Fixed it.
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Fixed it for you, too. Grammar is fun. :)

mrochester said:
Personally, I rarely use the app store as I find it slow, and bizarely, no way to show only the free apps in each category.
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It's not perfect, but if you go to the "Top Chart" area, you can select by category in the upper left and it will show a column of the top paid apps and a column of the free apps in your chosen category. You can continue to see more at the bottom of list. I'm not sure how far into the list you can get; but, it's always gone far enough for me to find what I need
 
That astounded me at first but then I thought of 2 of my friends and my husband. Without me recommending apps they would never do the work to discover them. All of the ones I've recommended have been helpful to them and they use them all the time. Some are productivity apps, some are fun/lifestyle, a few games. I have lots of apps and use most of them quite a lot. Dropbox made a huge difference in how I use my Ipad but I do also read newspapers and magazines on the IPad as well as books, deal with docs, use it for a photo portfolio (main computer processed files to Dropbox to Ipad), and also do all my email, internet--as I use the Ipad like my own little library where when I have a question I look it up. I read and participate in forums. Not much I don't do with it and apps help.

Diane
 
Actually the relevant chart in the report shows that 91% of iPad owners had downloaded an app, so it is only 1 in 11 that have not, not 1 in 3.

A post on another site suggested the one-third figure may be those who have not downloaded any paid apps, which is something else altogether.

Also the report was apparently based on 5,000 people but it shows that only 4% of them owned an iPad so the sample for the usage question was only 200 people - not particularly persuasive.
 
SemlinaPilchard said:
Actually the relevant chart in the report shows that 91% of iPad owners had downloaded an app, so it is only 1 in 11 that have not, not 1 in 3.

A post on another site suggested the one-third figure may be those who have not downloaded any paid apps, which is something else altogether.

Also the report was apparently based on 5,000 people but it shows that only 4% of them owned an iPad so the sample for the usage question was only 200 people - not particularly persuasive.
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I wonder why the BBC ran with the article that 1 in 3 people haven't downloaded an app then?
 
rhinosrcool said:
I don't buy the survey. Graphs and charts don't legitimize any sampling.
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They may not legitimize anything, but they do illustrate what the data says. Yes, graphs and tables can be very misleading, but I doubt they were making them up to prove a point.
 
My App downloads make up for at least 20 people. I think the few of us that do like to download and test Apps are a bit obsessive. Between iphone, ipod and ipad I have currently 800 on my MacPro and I must have deleted hundreds. I try most free Apps and if I like them I buy the full version and I shop for price drops every day. I keep a running AppShopper file of have/wants since the beginning of the store. I give list to friends who get iphones (I'm the only one with ipad so far but I feel X-mas will change that).
 
SteveKnobs said:
They may not legitimize anything, but they do illustrate what the data says. Yes, graphs and tables can be very misleading, but I doubt they were making them up to prove a point.
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I shouldn't have to explain, but I will. My point was just because they used colorful graphs, the data was flawed. So, the graphs were useless. My point was corroborated, I didn't believe the findings.

No, they didn't make up the findings, they're just incompetent.
 
Well as others have pointed out the report goes on to say that actually maybe only 9% of owners haven't downloaded any apps.
And also as others above said I could maybe believe that a 30% figure would represent those who have not paid for extra apps.

But the app store experience is utter crap. In terms of discovering apps that is. The categories are in great need of sub-sections. . .

Productivity for example is just far to wide an umbrella for all the kinds of apps in that category. It needs sub-sections of . . . . .

Word processing
Data processing
Presentation
Data/file storage
Drawing
Image editing
Etc etc etc. . .

Amazed apple still haven't sorted this out. Especially with a Mac AppStore on the way. . . . . Is that going to be as badly laid out as well?
 
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