Windows Users Love the iPad?
The iPad has now been out for over a week, and we at Chitika Research wondered: who are the early adopters? Are they Apple fans, hungry for a new product from Cupertino? Are they Microsoft fans, finally willing to give Steve Jobs and company a chance to prove themselves? Or are they iPhone users who just want something… bigger?
We checked out the IP addresses of iPads that came into the Chitika network and searched out what other devices came from the same addresses. To avoid businesses or retail stores with dozens or hundreds of Internet-connected devices, we limited the results to IP addresses with 5 or less devices seen (for example, at my home you’d see a MacBook, two Dell laptops, a BlackBerry and an iPhone).
The result is quite interesting: 50.96% of all iPad users have a Windows computer in their home. 8.55% have an iPhone (that browses via WiFi at home), and 62.95% run Mac OSX on a home computer.
What this means is that the iPad, like the iPhone, has managed to transcend the Apple/Microsoft debate. Despite their reputation as a niche computing company, Apple has created yet another product that strikes a chord with people who aren’t already within the Steve Jobs sphere of influence.
It will be interesting to see how these numbers change as other tablet devices start entering the market. Will the HP Slate take a bite out of the iPad’s Windows 7 numbers (15.91% of iPad users are running the latest version of Windows)? And what happens to the Microsoft-using demographic when Redmond ships the hotly rumored Courier tablet?
Only time will tell.
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How many Windows based homes did not have OSX yet still adopted the iPad? I think this is the real question because 50% of homes have PC, yet 62% have OSX, there is an overlap that would give a range of no homes with PC only getting the iPad. What is that percentage of windows only homes with an iPad as well.
Your results is rubbish.
No way you can tell which system is using which OS.
No way you can tell which OSX has dual-boot Windows – OSX users buy Apple PCs just to get the fantastic Windiws on their Foxconn PCs.
You did not share your sample size or population.
You did not share the error %
you did not share your methodology or statistical method.
Sorry dude, your results is just plain speculation and does not show anything
You may as well write an article than man landed on Mars.
Can not believe they let you publish this.
Interesting post 🙂 I like to know more from your blog, especially about Chitika.