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Leverage These Business Models And Features For Media App Success
Product strategists launching media applications on tablets have an opportunity to launch new products on these devices and enter a new era of media consumption. The tablet is a unique device with...
Product Strategists Must Position PCs And Peripherals Within A Multidevice Lifestyle
The success of the Apple iPad has created a halo around tablets in general: Consumers are interested in these devices, even if they're confused about what they actually are. US online consumers who...
Tablets Cannibalize Netbooks; Desktops Slide But Still Live On
As of July 2010, when this report was updated, our conclusions about the long-term implications of the growth of tablets still hold true. In the short-term, tablet growth will be even more aggressive...

Consumer Product Strategists' Critical Questions Answered
Consumer Product Strategists' Critical Questions Answered
In the nine months since Apple's iPad hit the shelves, Forrester has conducted more than 200 conversations about iPads and tablets with clients through inquiries, one-on-one meetings at Forrester's...
Winning Tablet Product Strategies Will Exploit Both Apps And Browsers
Product strategists are struggling to make sense of the tablet opportunity: Will there be a market for tablets beyond Apple's iPad, and if so, how big will it be? In this report, we present data from...
Tablets and TVs are big business: Forrester forecasts that 112.5 million US consumers will own a tablet by 2016, and tablets are disrupting several multibillion-dollar industries related to TV,...

Improved Tablet Browsers Will Force Apps To Evolve
Product strategists designing content experiences for tablets must decide on their development priorities across apps and browsers. While some proclaim that "the Web is dead," we see improving...
Innovation Infrastructure Empowers Product Strategists' Success
Product strategists from software, media, finance, healthcare, and other industries can learn from the example of Intuit. Intuit's culture of innovation — including unstructured "white space"...
Breaking Into Education Technology Requires Thinking Big And Acting Small
Technology product strategists, frustrated by low margins and fragmented procurement, have long dismissed the education market as too difficult to penetrate. But that's finally changing, thanks to...
Android Tablets Are Poised To Fail; Amazon.com Could Topple The Apple Cart
With Android smartphone sales surging, it's easy to think that Android-based devices will be the foil to the Apple iPad in the tablet market. But that's not what we see: Miscalculations in pricing...
Tablet Product Strategists Should View Amazon As Their New "Frenemy"
With 28.7 million iPads sold worldwide to date, Apple's lead in the tablet market looks invincible. Enter Amazon.com, whose tablet can compete on price, content, and commerce. If it's launched at the...
What is Forrester's current take on the future of the tablet market?
To Maximize Revenue, Product Strategists Must Transcend Analog Replicas
Despite minimal pick-up in e-textbook products thus far, publishers know that their historical business models are at risk. Disruptive markets, such as used and rental books, are emerging in response...
Product Strategists Should Stay Ahead Of Disruption With Innovation Now
Tablets have been the "it" product of 2010 and 2011. But they're not the final form factor. It's time for product strategists to anticipate what's coming next. We've identified five form factors as...