Report: Nexus 7 Is Already Posting "Impressive Usage Figures"

[still1]

Google?s Nexus 7 tablet is off to such a good start that Google can?t keep up with demand for the 16GB model. The company hasn?t released any sales data yet, so it?s hard to gauge whether Google is selling out because it just grossly underestimated demand and didn?t produce anywhere close to enough devices, or whether the Nexus 7 is really selling at unprecedented levels (for an Android tablet, that is). To get a better grip on how well the Nexus is doing after just over a week on the market, the folks at ad networks Chitikaprovided us with some data about what they are seeing on their network.

According to Chitika?s engineers, the Nexus 7 is posting ?impressive usage figures? across the company?s network. It currently accounts for 0.3 impressions for every 100 iPad impressions. That doesn?t sound like much, but the Nexus is actually on track to quickly catching up with other popular Android tablets like the Kindle Fire and Samsung Galaxy Tab.

As usual, it?s important to note that there are some caveats to this data. It?s limited to the sites that run Chitika?s ads, for example, which could skew the data depending on the sites that are in the company?s network. The data is also limited to web-browsing data and some tablets are obviously more popular for web browsing that others (which could explain why the Kindle Fire is behind the Nook and Blackberry Playbook in these stats). Still, in the absence of other data for the time being, these stats at least provide us with some idea about the Nexus? momentum.

After just a week then, the Nexus 7 already passed HPs failed Touchpad and could leave Motorola?s Xoom and Amazon?s Kindle Fire behind within the next few weeks once Google catches up with demand.

http://techcrunch.com/2012/07/23/report-googles-nexus-7-is-already-posting-impressive-usage-figures-could-catch-up-with-kindle-fire-soon/

[FMH]

BB Playbook has a higher usage than Kindle Fire? Even Nook is doing better than them. That's surprising statistics.

[still1]

BB Playbook has a higher usage than Kindle Fire? Even Nook is doing better than them. That's surprising statistics.

"As usual, it?s important to note that there are some caveats to this data. It?s limited to the sites that run Chitika?s ads"

"The data is also limited to web-browsing data and some tablets are obviously more popular for web browsing that others (which could explain why the Kindle Fire is behind the Nook and Blackberry Playbook in these stats)."

[FMH]

I just read the charts. :p

[Scorbing]

The BB Playbook is an excellent device. Great hardware, but the OS is what's killing it. It simply sucks. I wish someone would come up with a way to install Android on it.

[migo]

The PB OS is great, it's quite frankly the best mobile OS out there at the moment, and it will only get better with BB10. The hardware is also great. What's killing it is the relative lack of apps.

Besides, if you want Android on a PlayBook, there's either the Kindle Fire or the Nexus 7 you could just buy instead.

[Noir Angel]

Impressive. There's no tablet that can match the N7 at that price point, and I am not at all surprised to see how well it's selling.

[Growled Member]

An excellent start. Now if only they would sell a 32GB one.

[migo]

An excellent start. Now if only they would sell a 32GB one.

As long as they don't go up $50. They'd need to do something like $279, so that it's $289 in Canada and still looks like a really good deal. Most people know to read $299 as $300, and once the lead digit goes up by one it looks like much less of a good deal.