BS Alert: 19 percent Of American adults own a tablet computer

I'm not buying one in five adults own a tablet.

http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/E-readers-and-tablets.aspx

 

Yeah, no way.

Maybe they are including in those numbers the thousands of units used in warehouse and commercial locales.

 

What percentage of young people would have to own one to make up for all the people in rest homes that have no idea what a tablet computer is?

 

The one member of my family who has one is the 67-year-old. The 72-year old had to show her how to use it.

 

Consider me corrected.

 

My parents, in their late 50s, both have them, my dad an iPad 2 and my mom a Fire.

They'll never use them to within 25 percent of the devices capability — never download more than a few apps or really watch buy, download or watch movies — but they seem to enjoy surfing the internet from the couch.

 

"Hey, there's a clock on this thing!"

 

But it's blinking "12:00" all the time.

 

They use 16 and 18 as the threshold for 'adult'hood in the survey, so I don't think age is the limiting factor.

I'd be interested, however, to know how many poor folks, rural or urban, ever get a call from Pew in surveys like this.

 

I might believe 1 in 5 in New York City.

This also might be based on the number sold in this country. I know people who are on their third iPad.