News - Survey suggests 54 per cent of Britons are considering buying an Apple Tablet

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The hype surrounding Apple's fabled device hits fever pitch, but does Apple have its work cut out in convincing British shoppers?

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Subsequent survey suggests that 80% of the 54% now won't considering buying the Apple Tablet because they realised they don't know the price yet.

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Originally Posted by usxhe190

Subsequent survey suggests that 80% of the 54% now won't considering buying the Apple Tablet because they realised they don't know the price yet.

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A further 60% of the 80% have just realised they don't know what the device will do or if it actually exists.

i don't need an apple i-slate, i have a nokia n900.

Grief, I hope they all catch fire and burn to a crisp. Without setting fire to people or other property... obviously.

99.9999999999999999999999% of people don't know what an Apple Tablet is.

Hmmmm.

So .... 54% of Britons would consider buying one. To put that another way, 46% wouldn't consider one. And if they won't "consider" one then, regardless of specification, functionality or price, they would not even consider it? I'm surprised that that 54% wasn't higher than that.

I'd "consider" buying one, if the device offers me anything I need, looks to be a good buy and is at the right price. But .... what would I pay, now that's different. £250? Very unlikely. £500? That's as likely, from me, as the Sun rising in the North tomorrow and doing an Argentinian Tango with the moon as it crosses the sky.

So, I'd consider buying one, under the right circumstances. But knowing what I do about Apple, and their pricing policies based on iPhones, etc, what do I think the actual chances of me buying one are? About the same as me being elected Pope and being the world's next mega-hit pop star. And if you'd ever heard me singing, you'd have a grasp on how likely that is. ;) I stand a better chance of being Pope .... and I ain't Catholic. :D

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Originally Posted by Saracen

But knowing what I do about Apple, and their pricing policies based on iPhones, etc,

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Any one else wondering if this mythical device will be a bigger brother to the iPhone or to the iPod Touch?

If it is the latter then it will have straight forward pricing. If it's going to be a big brother to the iPhone then say hello to another mobile contract :D

Oh how the networks would love that!

Exactly. Surely in asking someone if they would consider something they must then go and consider it to answer the question.

I just considered buying London but decided that it's probably too expensive and too much hassle.

I do sometimes wonder where these surverys take place? I'd give them a bloody piece of my mind.

Just look that survery that was done a few weeks ago where Brits didn't know who Steve Jobs or Sir Tim Berners-lee were! "They" didn't even know who Bill Gates was!

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Originally Posted by Singh400

I do sometimes wonder where these surverys take place?

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In the Apple Store in Regent Street obviously!! :lol:

This video makes me chuckle:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide..._revolutionary

Bollocks, I doubt 54% of the British public would have a clue as to what an Apple Tablet might be, let alone be bothered to ponder possibly buying one of them.

one of these?

http://www.latenightwithjimmyfallon....TabletPill.jpg

54% percent of sheep hear "apple i..." and would consider buying it.

I would definitely consider buying one for $5, if it served as a substitute for painful physical exercise, could cook and do my ironing without bitching would be a plus too.

If its just a grown up iPhone, and I decide I need something without a keyboard in my life (again!) i'll just buy that HP thing plz thanks!

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Originally Posted by Singh400

I do sometimes wonder where these surverys take place? I'd give them a bloody piece of my mind.

Just look that survery that was done a few weeks ago where Brits didn't know who Steve Jobs or Sir Tim Berners-lee were! "They" didn't even know who Bill Gates was!

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I sometimes wonder if they are even carried out!! Maybe the people with clipboards just stood there ticking random boxes so they could go home early - brings back memories of doing a survey in school...
Or maybe the survey was printed on a receipt when you bought a computer from the Apple store? Either way I doubt a 'fair' (for want of a better word) survey would end up with those results!!
It was later confirmed that 99% of the people questioned just said yes to get away and avoid having someone convince them they need one so they end up saying yes to get away anyway...

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Originally Posted by watercooled

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Or maybe the survey was printed on a receipt when you bought a computer from the Apple store?

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How very dare you! I don't even go near the Apple store in Birmingham, I start puking. Wouldn't be caught dead in there. No chance, nadda, not a snowballs chance in hell will I ever step foot in a Apple store.

I did - once, and I couldn't help but feel sorry for the people parting with so much cash after being convinced they needed one of their virus-proof, fast, stylish, high quality systems...
Well, they are stylish I suppose...

My Macbook is plenty fast, stylish and high quality, thankyou :)

On topic, how large was the sample size? Where did they take it, did they account for lots of demographics? There are towns where 54% of people are struggling to find jobs and make ends meet, let alone drop lots of money on a tablet they don't need. Oh and let's not forget that a third of people couldn't locate their own lungs...

I listened to a great podcast about the possibilities of a tablet yesterday, the guys were saying - correctly - in my opinion that it's effectively Steve Jobs' last hurrah. He's had his finger in a lot of the game changing pies over the last few years. Say what you like about Apple, they know how to sell products. The iPod was revolutionary, there was the Apple II and now the iPhone (actually a nice bit of kit) and of course OS X. Jobsy has been around for pretty much all of that and releasing a Tablet would be a good time to quit. Pricing, they reckoned, would be between the iPhone and the low end macbook - somewhere between $500 and $1000 - pinpointing around $750, which seems like a reasonable price to expect.

All I can picture is some fat American bloke stood outside an Apple store with a box in his hand and a sticky crotch on launch day, it's always the same!

In other news 76% of statistics are made up and 94% are complete bollocks. These results were taken from a sample of 140000 statistics produced when asking Hindi women during child birth.

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/arch...p?comicid=1271 springs to mind.

Some people are just hell bent on all apple products and will get it. Some people are hell bent against such products, and wont. This is a fact of the current climate, and lunacy that surrounds Apple products. Sanity check - one please, to be delivered to the Human Race.

Today I surveyed myself and found that 1 out of 1 person was not interested in a mythical devices, 1 out of 1 person was not interested in Apple products as they're always to expensive and 1 out of 1 person couldn't be bothered about this anymore.

Thats 100%, well done Cheese!! :)

For anyone that didn't read the article, its 54% of 3000 people from a site i've never heard of!

Excellent news headline! :P

54% of Britons must know something that I don't, which is surprising considering the amount of news I've seen on this device.

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Originally Posted by CAT-THE-FIFTH

In the Apple Store in Regent Street obviously!! :lol:

This video makes me chuckle:

http://www.theonion.com/content/vide..._revolutionary

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This video was worth a watch.

"Everything is just a few hundred clicks away." :)

I wonder if that percentage is the same now we know a little more about the iPad?

It's not a tablet, and that's the key point. So everything you assume about a tablet (notebook/netbook sans keyboard) is irrelevant to this. Not a full OS, not a mainstream processor, not a huge amount of memory, and it is very locked down.

This may make things like the HP slate or the Archos 9 a lot more acceptable to the public though. And that is a good thing for me as it might drive prices down due to competition :)

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Originally Posted by Lowe

I wonder if that percentage is the same now we know a little more about the iPad?

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i think the survey has been updated to suggest that 4 per cent of Britons are stupid enough to consider buying an Apple Tablet

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Originally Posted by Funkstar

It's not a tablet, and that's the key point. So everything you assume about a tablet (notebook/netbook sans keyboard) is irrelevant to this. Not a full OS, not a mainstream processor, not a huge amount of memory, and it is very locked down.

This may make things like the HP slate or the Archos 9 a lot more acceptable to the public though. And that is a good thing for me as it might drive prices down due to competition :)

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do you think apple and archos are competing with each other to see who can cripple the hardware the most?

the archos stuff could be quite good if the features were unlocked from the start and reasonably firmware updates. if it could play flac and mkv and all the files that the hardware is capable of doing without you having to buy plugins, then it would be great, but instead the old models are sold off in sales

and yet apple don't include a usb socket, or let you drag and drop music files, forcing you to use itunes or some other software, no flac support, no flash etc. it's almost like you need to get an archos and ipod and mash them together to make a full functioning item. ironically all the cheap chinese copies have all the things people want, like memory card sockets etc, but they are just ultimately crappy

i think the ipad is apples new newton, a bit of a dodo. at £300 it would be appealing to some if you could use a 3g dongle without having to jump through hoops or use a wifi 3g dongle, but who wants to have to carry two things to get online? i think the ereader book market is a very limited one. you either read a paper book or watch a movie, not read on the computer. i think it's a fad that won't last long. hopefully that won't be one of those set in stone quotes that's raised again in 10 years when the world goes ebook crazy. you can stick a book in a bag or pocket and not worry about it getting damaged, read it in bed or the bath, but you have to be careful with an electronic device, particularly when it costs so much. just wait till ebooks reach mp3 levels of piracy too. right now it's not practicle for joe public to copy a book, but it would only take a few seconds to download it for free

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Originally Posted by uni

do you think apple and archos are competing with each other to see who can cripple the hardware the most?

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Ironically, the Archos devices are getting more open. There is an Android powered Archos 5 and a Windows powered Archos 9.

The iPad doesn't have a USB socket but there is USB pins in the dock connector, just like the iPhone and all the iPods. There will be card readers available from apple so you can stick photos on it without a PC, but no direct connection and because of the OS no printing either.

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Originally Posted by Funkstar

Ironically, the Archos devices are getting more open. There is an Android powered Archos 5 and a Windows powered Archos 9.

The iPad doesn't have a USB socket but there is USB pins in the dock connector, just like the iPhone and all the iPods. There will be card readers available from apple so you can stick photos on it without a PC, but no direct connection and because of the OS no printing either.

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so much for the smart arses who say apple is better as everything is easier. you have to buy seperate adapters to make everything work, and of course on the table you can only plug one thing in at a time

i thought the archos 5 was crippled too? i saw a cheap price for it the other day, but put off by the out of box restrictions. i didn't think it was android based though. and isn't archos 9 going to cost a fortune if it's got windows 7 on it? i just want a large capacipty mp3 player that just plays all standard music types and is under £200. i don't need apps to tell the the weather or the date

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Originally Posted by uni

i thought the archos 5 was crippled too? i saw a cheap price for it the other day, but put off by the out of box restrictions. i didn't think it was android based though. and isn't archos 9 going to cost a fortune if it's got windows 7 on it? i just want a large capacipty mp3 player that just plays all standard music types and is under £200. i don't need apps to tell the the weather or the date

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There is more than one Archos 5 I think. Archos 9 is £420 from Play.com.

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Originally Posted by Funkstar

There is more than one Archos 5 I think. Archos 9 is £420 from Play.com.

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my 17" laptop with two hardrives was only £350 brand new from dell, so £420 for a glorified mp3 player is ridiculous. the new archos mp3 players are really cheap though, about £20 for a 4gb model. less than half the price of an ipod mini and it has a screen too

apparently they have a new range coming out soon, i think a bit more back to basics, mp3 players without all the stuff that no-one wants or needs

So much bad press about the iPad around right now,
but Apple could fix a fair amount by enabling multitasking before release...