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• Report Google Glass: What Marketers Need To Know

  Utility-Based Marketing Is In; Advertising Is Out

  June 20, 2013 | Sarah Rotman Epps

  Google Glass, the new head-mounted device from Google, has the potential to be the next great platform for app development — as disruptive and fertile a platform as the iPhone has been. Google's...

• Report The Worldwide Tablet Forecast

  A ForecastView Report

  June 13, 2013 | Michael O'Grady, Vikram Sehgal

  Forrester recently launched its first global tablet forecast. This report provides color and insight into the numbers behind the forecast. We examine some of the key drivers from both a consumer...

• Report Fitness Wearables — Many Products, Few Customers

  Product Strategists Must Broaden Wearables' Appeal Beyond Fitness

  January 28, 2013 | Sarah Rotman Epps

  Wearable devices are part of the next wave of growth and innovation in personal computing, a phenomenon we call "smart body, smart world." Wearables could target any use case, from gaming to...

• Report Forrester Research World Tablet Adoption Forecast, 2012 To 2017 (Global)

  ForecastView Spreadsheet

  January 16, 2013 | Michael O'Grady

  Global sales and installed base for tablet devices in 53 countries. Breaks out installed base of consumer- and business-owned tablets by country and new and replacement tablet sales. Also...

• Report The Fight To Control The TV Becomes A Platform War

  May 16, 2012 | James McQuivey, PhD

  The fight to control the TV is a battle for the more than 114 million TV households that, until now, have been under the quiet control of cable and satellite providers and the broadcast and cable...

• Report The Tablet-TV Connection

  April 11, 2012 | Sarah Rotman Epps

  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,...

• Report Microsoft's Shrinking Window For Tablets

  Windows 8 Shows Promise, But Its Fifth-Mover Product Strategy Is Late

  November 29, 2011 | J. P. Gownder, Sarah Rotman Epps

  Microsoft faces challenges in the tablet market due to its late entry. While Windows 8 looks like a promising product for tablet computing, its release won't come until sometime next year. Though...

• Report Amazon Will Be Apple's Top Competitor In Tablets

  Tablet Product Strategists Should View Amazon As Their New "Frenemy"

  August 29, 2011 | Sarah Rotman Epps

  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...

• Report Tablets Will Grow As Fast As MP3 Players

  Winning Tablet Product Strategies Will Exploit Both Apps And Browsers

  January 4, 2011 | Sarah Rotman Epps

  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...

• Report Smartphone Platforms Need A Branding Reset

  US Consumers Have Little Clue About Their Phone's Software

  September 1, 2010 | Charles S. Golvin

  In the white-hot US smartphone market, the once-invisible underlying software platforms have become one of the fiercest areas of competition. RIM and Apple lead this market, while platforms from...

• Report 360-Degree Music Experiences: Use The Cloud To Target Device-Use Orbits

  July 9, 2010 | Mark Mulligan

  Business models and rights issues have both distorted and fragmented the consumer digital music experience and products. A new generation of 360-degree music services is emerging that leverages...

• Report Engage Conversationalists Using The POST Framework

  How To Create Social Media Strategies For Your Conversationalist Customers

  June 16, 2010 | Augie Ray

  With real-time and social search appearing in Google search results and Facebook surpassing Google in number of visits per day, marketers are realizing that earned media on social networks — what...

• Report Why Google TV Is Bigger Than You Think

  How TV Will Finally Become Interactive, At Scale

  June 7, 2010 | James McQuivey, PhD

  Google made significant noise when it recently announced Google TV, the search giant's most recent attempt to influence the future of the TV experience. The news itself was overly complex, and...

• Report Favorite Online Brands Succeed On Traditional Brand Values

  How Marketers Can Position Their Brands With Online-Friendly Attributes

  November 16, 2009 | David Card

  Google remains consumers' favorite online brand, with Yahoo! and Amazon not far behind. In the minds of their fans, the top online brands exhibit very traditional attributes such as...

• Report Gen Y Points To A Mobile Future For Local Search

  October 13, 2009 | Abe Garon, Sarah Rotman Epps

  Search is a high-stakes business: Forrester estimates that the US search market overall is worth $15 billion in 2009, of which local advertising spend is nearly $4 billion. The companies vying for...