Smartwatch purchase plans

Among online Americans, purchase intentions for Apple Watches outpace those for Android Smartwatches.

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Purchase Plans-Hints from the upcoming TUP 2021 results

In these extraordinary times of change, we have released a small number of top-line observations based on preliminary results from TUP 2021 findings. This MetaFAQs includes observations of purchase plans based on preliminary results from TUP 2021, based on over 7,500 American respondents, of which almost 5,000 respondents have any purchase plans for PCs, smartphones, tablets, printers, or wearables. (The final results will be much larger in scope–based on results from over 13,500 respondents in the US, UK, Germany, Japan, and China.) Planners of note include Americans working from home and Americans planning to purchase a tablet or wearables.

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Highlights: Printers

Who’s printing—and what are they printing? TUP Highlights include a broad and deep dive into an essential technology usage topic.
This highlights report focuses on printers, including: top printer brands, purchase plans for printers, top printing activities, profile of intensive printer users, ink use, trends in printing, major activities for a market segment, top printer form factors, and profile of printer user by activity. The research results showcase the TUP/Technology User Profile study, MetaFacts’ survey of a representative sample of online adults profiling the full market’s use of technology products and services during the wave of TUP/Technology User Profile 2021, which is TUP’s 39th annual. TUP Highlights typically also include results from previous waves of TUP.

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Apple’s share of active smartwatches [MetaFAQs]

Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, November 17, 2020 What is Apple’s share of actively used smartwatches? How does this vary between the US, the UK, Germany, and Japan? How has this changed in recent years? This MetaFAQs reports on Apple’s share of the active installed base across four countries and four years. About MetaFAQs MetaFAQs…

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Watching the watches – smartwatches and fitness bands [TUPdate]

Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, December 12, 2019

Smartwatch and fitness band penetration tapers to 2016 levels

The race for the wrist has settled into a larger-than-niche and less-than-majority position. Over the last three years, the share of online Americans using at least one smartwatch has grown from one in six to one in five, only to settle back to the one-in-six level. This is based on the TUP/Technology User Profile 2019 survey of 8,060 online adults in the US, and from the prior three annual waves.

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Every step you take – smartphone step-trackers [TUPdate]

Dan Ness, Principal Analyst, MetaFacts, March 24, 2017

Baby steps count, as long as they’re in the right direction.  Digital health promises positive outcomes for a wide range of people. However, like gym memberships and home treadmills, they don’t do much unless people use them. A first step for many is to use what’s handy. Most smartphones can track a user’s steps, and many are being used for that purpose, although use isn’t as widespread as fitness trackers or smartwatches.

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