iPad Usage Patterns Differ From Other Platforms

Technology becoming more personal and intimate as the Post-PC era develops. Nice to see.

How is this more of the Post PC era BS. All it tells me is people are willing to use their iPad are more likely to be used in bed or when people are relaxing in bed.

Boy I bet if you look at lets say kindle usage pattern it would have a very similar spike in the evening as well.

To me I find it interesting and tells you that the iPad is replacing other devices for relaxing in the evening after work. It is not an items that sits at a desk where get more real work done.

Honestly I find the graph rather interesting to look at over all to see how different devices break down. Look at the blackberry earlier in the house and then come 5-6am you see all the smart phone OS jump above everything else. That tells you that first thing people do in the morning is grab their phone and check their email.
During the day seeing Android keep up with the desktop OS I find is intersting as well and kind of wondering why that is.

Interesting. On lazy days for me I do tend to transition from my Mac to my iPad as it gets later so that I can use it from bed.

A key takeaway is that this is measuring web traffic. It cannot measure what people are doing with these devices when NOT surfing. Therefore any meaningful conclusions cannot be made. It's interesting in how it related to web traffic only. And I'd say a subset of traffic at that considering the source of the data.

How is this more of the Post PC era BS. All it tells me is people are willing to use their iPad are more likely to be used in bed or when people are relaxing in bed.

Since the days of people relaxing in bed with their iMac were.... well, never, you seem to have answered your own question.

Eoff believes it's because the iPad is "used as an entertainment device" more than both smartphones and browsers.

surely it's more that, if you're surfing websites on your ipad at work, it's quite obvious because of the size of the device. but you can quite easily read macrumors.com on your phone or desktop browser and people will think you're answering emails or checking your meeting schedules in the calendar.

i think it's more likely because the ipad is a device that people can use to continue browsing while at the same time spending quality-time with their family. you're going to get shouted at for sitting in your bedroom/study on your own surfing the web, but as long as you're in the same room as the rest of the family, while they rot their brains watching reality tv so-called-entertainment, no one minds

This makes sense to me, as I tend to relax in my chair during the evenings. I don't want to take my MBP with me, and the iPad is just right. Plus it shuts off if I fall asleep with it much sooner and more reliably than my Mac.

Since the days of people relaxing in bed with their iMac were.... well, never, you seem to have answered your own question.

Wat? You don't have an iMac in your bed? What have you got against iMacs? ;)

Since the shift from desktops to laptops, I think a lot of people would use laptops in bed. It's not a huuuge shift to using an iPad.

Are you high?

You are clearly out of touch if you think post pc era is even remotely approaching.

Post PC doesn't mean no PCs. You're out of touch if you don't think it is.

Because the Galaxy has a full fledged file system like a computer, I use mine to carry work and personal files.

We've been doing this with our iPhones for the last couple of years.

Because it handles .PDF files so well, and has a larger more easily used display, I can do things such as edit files, create & review files, and other tasks while away from my desk, or while waiting at the airport, etc.

As above.

Apps have their own file systems, or you can use a file manager of your choice (i.e. GoodReader or iFiles as a central location) from which you can migrate files from app to app and then save them within the particular app's own filesystem if you like. One can do any number of things with a single file this way.

Technology becoming more personal and intimate as the Post-PC era develops. Nice to see.

How is this more of the Post PC era BS. All it tells me is people are willing to use their iPad are more likely to be used in bed or when people are relaxing in bed.

Boy I bet if you look at lets say kindle usage pattern it would have a very similar spike in the evening as well.

To me I find it interesting and tells you that the iPad is replacing other devices for relaxing in the evening after work. It is not an items that sits at a desk where get more real work done.

Honestly I find the graph rather interesting to look at over all to see how different devices break down. Look at the blackberry earlier in the house and then come 5-6am you see all the smart phone OS jump above everything else. That tells you that first thing people do in the morning is grab their phone and check their email.
During the day seeing Android keep up with the desktop OS I find is intersting as well and kind of wondering why that is.

Although since this is only tracking web browsing, it doesn't really reflect using the iPad for "real work." If I spent the day typing my novel and not reading Macrumors, whatever the device, I'd show up as no use on these graphs.