Study is about news consumption but stats are good.
http://www.journalism.org/analysis_report/future_mobile_news
I can relate. Tablets have become my main way of accessing the Internets and mainly I use them to gobble up news. The tablet lets me share news via email, social networks etc, faster and more seamlessly than with my laptop.
I also use my smartphone for news but that is mainly when I have to wait somewhere.
I suspect that newspapers and specialized topic magazines will eventually head for subscription based mobile distribution once market penetration hits a high enough percentage.
Same story here re:news
Also social - e.g. if I don't want to be distracted by Twitter too much I'll keep it open o my iPad while working o my computer, that way I can check it when I need to but don't have the distraction of having it right in front of me
>Tablets have become my main way
Of everything. Except for 'business' stuff like Quickbooks or Sketchup ...or anything that needs a printer. All purchases are by tablet except in the rare occasion that a site is so backward that it won't render properly.
One thing to add as a savior (of a portion) of the traditional desktop is that I'm still seeing evidence that many, many people are still accessing the web while at work and most work environments are full-size screens and keyboards.
In the North American market access by smartphone just tipped in favor of Android
Apple accounts for 46 percent of all mobile phone traffic in the U.S and Canada
34 percent non-Samsung Android, plus 15 percent non-Galaxy-S III Samsung, plus 2percent Galaxy S III, adds up to 51 percent ... giving Android a total share of 51 percent. Or, if not exactly 51, some number between 50 and 51.
In other words, a majority for Android.
This info is from studies done by Chitika