{"id":4401,"date":"2012-03-09T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2012-03-09T14:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2012-03-09T10:50:50","modified_gmt":"2012-03-09T16:50:50","slug":"consumer-reports-tablet-survey-screenshots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=4401","title":{"rendered":"Consumer Reports &#8220;Tablet&#8221; Survey Screenshots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email from consumerreports.org this morning regarding tablets, mattresses and teflon cookware.   Perhaps someone might expand on the various connections within and between those subjects.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, I found the survey content interesting (particularly the obligatory flash question, which in my view is irrelevant).  Here are a few screenshots (tap to view larger versions):<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs01_32012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs01_32012.jpg\" width=\"400\" Title=\"Consumer Reports Tablet Survey Screenshot 1 March 2012 by Jim Zellmer @ zmetro.com\"><\/a><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs02_32012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs02_32012.jpg\" width=\"400\" Title=\"Consumer Reports Tablet Survey Screenshot 1 March 2012 by Jim Zellmer @ zmetro.com\"><\/a><br \/><Br><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs03_32012.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/photos\/2012\/03\/cs03_32012.jpg\" width=\"400\" Title=\"Consumer Reports Tablet Survey Screenshot 1 March 2012 by Jim Zellmer @ zmetro.com\"><\/a><br \/><Br>In my experience, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/\">iPad<\/a> is years ahead of its few competitors, largely due to software and design excellence along with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/technology\/technology\/2012\/03\/new_ipad_how_apple_s_tablet_strategy_parallels_its_unbeatable_ipod_success_.html\">a world beating supply chain<\/a>.<br \/><Br>Follow the tablet and smartphone wars via these smart guides: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asymco.com\">Horace Dediu<\/a> (Helsinki), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brianshall.com\">Brian Hall<\/a> (next door in Middleton) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mondaynote.com\/\">Frederic Filloux &#038; Jean-Louis Gassee<\/a> (Palo Alto and Paris).<\/p>\n<p>P.S.  I found it interesting, yet unsurprising, that no questions were asked regarding the creation of things or information.  I, in fact, use my iPad to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.apple.com\/ipad\/from-the-app-store\/apps-by-apple\/keynote.html\">create and update presentations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.omnigroup.com\/products\/omnigraphsketcher-ipad\">charts<\/a>,  write and occasionally edit images\/video.  In a pinch, I&#8217;ve also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/i6s\/\">taken a photo or two and captured video with the iPad<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I received an email from consumerreports.org this morning regarding tablets, mattresses and teflon cookware. Perhaps someone might expand on the various connections within and between those subjects. In any event, I found the survey content interesting (particularly the obligatory flash question, which in my view is irrelevant). Here are a few screenshots (tap to view [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4401"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4414,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4401\/revisions\/4414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}