U.S Tablet Ownership Doubled Over Christmas

Tablets are catching on fast, leaving cheap PC makers in the dust. Graph: Pew Internet

Roughly ten percent of Americans got a tablet for Christmas, according to figures published by the Pew Research Center. In mid-December, 10 of U.S adults owned a tablet computer. Now, that figure has jumped to 19%, which suggests that ownership doubled in a month. Almost exactly the same numbers were also reported for e-readers.

The Kindle likely has a lot to do with this. The Kindle Fire is the first non-iPad tablet that has sold in meaningful quantities (Amazon hasn’t broken out individual numbers, but ...

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