Poll Articles on TUAW - The Unofficial Apple Weblog

Should Apple have advertised during the Super Bowl?

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Feb 7th, 2012)

Mashable's Lance Ulanoff raises the question of whether Apple should have advertised during Super Bowl XLVI. He points out that 28 years after the debut of the "1984" commercial that Apple sat on the sidelines and allowed its rivals to mock it during the most-watched show in U.S. television ...

Poll: How often do you use your iPad?

by Michael Grothaus (Nov 10th, 2011)

In the latest string of surveys from companies who have nothing to do with Apple or technology, MyVoucherCodes.co.uk polled 1500 respondents in the UK and found that 26% of them used their iPad about once a week. The low usage from a quarter of owners, apparently is due to the fact that half of ...

You're the Pundit: Do you need a landline?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 26th, 2011)

When it comes to forecasting the next big thing, we turn to our secret weapon: the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is landlines. In the age of the iPhone, when each person can have their own voice and data center that travels with them in ...

You're the Pundit: iPhone 5 US Carriers

by Erica Sadun (Aug 31st, 2011)

Other sites have rumors. We have the TUAW braintrust. We put the question to you and let you have your go at it. Today's topic is the iPhone 5 and its carriers. As Autumn rolls around and the iPhone 5 gets ready to launch, what carriers do you expect to see joining Verizon and AT&T with ...

Poll: Lion's "natural scrolling" vs. "reverse scrolling"

by Steven Sande (Jul 21st, 2011)

One of the first things that new users of OS X Lion are apt to either completely love or hate with a passion is the change to "natural scrolling." This is like scrolling on an iPad or iPhone -- when you use two fingers to swipe down on a trackpad, whatever you're scrolling moves in a downward ...

Consumer PC sales growth declines for first time ever: iPad the culprit?

by Michael Grothaus (May 29th, 2011)

Business Insider has posted a chart that tracks consumer PC growth from June of 2007 to March of 2011. According to the chart consumer PC sales have grown by at least 10 percent every quarter, until December 2010 when it remained flat. In the quarter ending March 2011, consumer PC sales ...

Poll: Some issues reported around using cables between iPad versions

by Erica Sadun (Mar 14th, 2011)

Experiencing cable woes? TUAW reader Chris Arnold of Sumo Computers sent in this photo demonstrating why he believes his original iPad cable had problems working with his iPad 2. TUAW rigorously tested several cables but was unable to duplicate these issues -- all the cables we tested worked ...

Will you buy an iPad 2?

by Chris Rawson (Mar 3rd, 2011)

The dust of the announcement has settled, and the immediate effects of Steve Jobs' famous Reality Distortion Field have waned. The iPad 2 is almost here: get used to it. Predictably, crackpots and pundits have had their say, and just as with the original iPad, not everyone is thrilled with ...

AT&T could lose 26% of iPhone customers, study suggests

by Steven Sande (Feb 10th, 2011)

With Verizon picking up the iPhone 4 in the US, market research firm ChangeWave decided to see just how much of an impact the new carrier would have on AT&T. The result of a survey of over 4,000 U.S. consumers shows that a whopping 26 percent of respondents said that they would drop AT&T ...

Verizon iPhone pre-orders sold out, new VZW iPhone ad debuts

by Michael Rose (Feb 3rd, 2011)

Contrary to the anticipation of some midnight ramblers (or, to be precise, three in the morning bandits), the Verizon subscriber-exclusive pre-order window didn't close for business before the sun rose on the East Coast this morning. It took all of 17 hours or so for the initial allocation of ...

TUAW Poll: Will you buy the Verizon iPhone?

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jan 11th, 2011)

Now that the cat's out of the bag, here at TUAW we're wondering how AT&T will answer to Verizon's iPhone announcement -- specifically the part where the iPhone 4 will be a mobile hotspot that supports up to 5 devices. It's definitely an extra incentive to lure AT&T customers, already unhappy ...

Why I'm skipping AirPlay

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Nov 23rd, 2010)

It's pretty simple: I want to stream music from my Mac to my iPad or iPhone. Why? Because I sometimes connect one of those iOS devices to a home stereo. Those devices do not contain my entire iTunes library. Unfortunately, AirPlay won't let me stream my iTunes library to my iOS devices. Thus, I'm ...

TUAW Poll: What's the name of OS X 10.7?

by Erica Sadun (Oct 13th, 2010)

Here at TUAW, we love possibilities. Yeah, we all know that Apple's new OS will be named something prosaic and big cat like OS X 10.7 Lion but until Apple actually makes its announcement, the waveform doesn't collapse. Possibilities still abound. TUAW spent this morning brainstorming alternatives ...

Tearing apart an old Apple TV just for the heck of it

by Steven Sande (Sep 9th, 2010)

My "love" for the original Apple TV is well-documented. I purchased a 40 GB model not long after the device hit the market, and found it not to my liking. I hated how I had to slowly sync everything to the device, it had little space to begin with (yeah, I know I should have just swapped out the HD ...

Has iPad addiction contributed to its growth?

by Keith M (Aug 2nd, 2010)

There's a short post over at the Business Insider about the author's view of the success of the iPad, based on how interested (e.g., addicted) his kids are in the device. It got me thinking -- is the fact that kids love the iPad a good measure of its success? Well, yes and no. In my gaming ...