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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Tablet Ownership Steadily Increasing |Digital.gov",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Tablet Ownership Steadily Increasing","summary" : "Tablet ownership continues to rise, 44% of Americans now owning one, according to Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) December 2013  estimates. Other interesting findings include: Exactly half of American adults now own either a tablet or an e-reader. 7 in 10 online consumers expect","date" : "2014-03-11T10:32:50-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","topics" : {
        
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      "editpathURL" :"https://github.com/GSA/digitalgov.gov/edit/bc-archive-content-3/content/news/2014/03/2014-03-11-trends-on-tuesday-tablet-ownership-steadily-increasing.md","slug" : "trends-on-tuesday-tablet-ownership-steadily-increasing","url" : "/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2014/03/11/trends-on-tuesday-tablet-ownership-steadily-increasing/","content" :"\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/tablet-screen-digitalgov-mobile.jpg\"\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"image\"\u003e\n  \u003cimg\n    src=\"https://s3.amazonaws.com/digitalgov/_legacy-img/2014/03/tablet-screen-digitalgov-mobile.jpg\"\n    alt=\"Hand holding tablet screen showing Digitalgov.gov\u0026#39;s mobile channel posts.\"/\u003e\u003c/div\u003e\n\n\u003c/a\u003eTablet ownership continues to rise, 44% of Americans now owning one, according to \u003ca href=\"http://www.ce.org/News/News-Releases/Press-Releases/2013-Press-Releases/Tablet-Ownership-Rate-Reaches-New-High-of-44-Perce.aspx\"\u003eConsumer Electronics Association (CEA) December 2013  estimates\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eOther interesting findings include:\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExactly half of American adults now own either a tablet or an e-reader.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e7 in 10 online consumers expect to buy a tablet sometime in the near future, according to the CEA research.\u003c/li\u003e\n\u003c/ul\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhat is also interesting to note is that a shift toward smaller tablet screens is occurring.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAmong current owners, small screens of seven to eight inches have increased from 25 percent ownership in June 2013 to 32 percent in December 2013. Conversely, ownership of medium screens 8.9 to 10.1inches have decreased from 73 percent in June 2013 to 68 percent in December 2013.\u003c/p\u003e\n\u003c/blockquote\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe increase in overall tablet ownership and the move toward a slightly smaller screen means agencies designing their information for anywhere any device consumption need to consider the proliferation of screen sizes and think along \u003ca href=\"/preview/gsa/digitalgov.gov/bc-archive-content-3/2013/08/20/embracing-responsive-design/\" title=\"Embracing Responsive Design\"\u003eresponsive design\u003c/a\u003e.\u003c/p\u003e\n"}
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