He has usually favored Apple products, however, because he believes that they are designed for average users.
As usual, this guide is meant for average users doing typical tasks, not businesses, or people doing heavy-duty work like video production.
While this distinction is a weapon in the war of words between the carriers, I doubt it's a big deal for most average users.
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While a lot of attention has been paid on wireless networking in recent months--Apple Airport and Lucent Technologies ' (nyse: LU - news - people) Orinoco products come to mind--some of the products have been criticized for being difficult for the average home users to set up.
Class A: Most prestigious buildings competing for premier office users with rents above average for the area.
Class B: Buildings competing for a wide range of users with rents in the average range for the area.
The Pokki Twitter app, for example, is opened by users on average 17 times per day, says Ng.
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WebProNews recently noted the success of mobile ads on Facebook for android users, where they spend an average of 15 minutes a day.
On the online video front, comScore reported that 174 million U.S. internet users watched online video for an average of 14.8 hours per viewer in a total of 5.7 billion viewing sessions in March.
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While the BlackBerry's plastic keyboard and tight integration with corporate e-mail systems makes it an unbeatable e-mail machine, Nielsen Mobile's first-quarter data show that the iPhone is all about multimedia, playing music, video and online games far above the average usage of those services for other mobile phone users.
Nelson says WGT gets more than the industry average of 3% of its users paying for these micro-transactions.
User Metrics: For daily active users, Facebook had 665 million on average in March, which was up 26% from a year ago.
Capitalizing on an idea that seems obvious in hindsight, Facebook set the user-engagement bar high for competing social utilities: its users currently spend an average of 6 to 7 hours on the site each month.
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For example, Zynga has created a computation that follows average daily users and average daily bookings (or revenue) per daily user.
The calculator uses pre-entered data points, such as average electric rates, but users can enter their own electric rates for more accurate results.
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In a unique feature for a same-day booking app, HotelTonight shows an average rating from other users of the app, which can be a helpful gauge of hotel quality.
As the ratio of peak throughput to average throughput goes up, paying for the peak becomes unattractive for all but the heaviest users.
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Mark Zuckerberg can crow about how his users spend, on average, 6.35 hours per month on Facebook versus 18 minutes for LinkedIn.
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Sanjay Sehgal thinks the average CAPTCHA, that collection of deformed characters that Web sites ask users to type out when registering for an account, is both too easy and too demanding.
Contestabile explains that iOS and Facebook are the two most popular platforms for Bejeweled Blitz, with iOS driving more than double the engagement of Facebook gameplay. iOS users play an average of 52 one-minute games of Bejeweled Blitz per day.
Reportedly, users spend only an average of 10-12 seconds solving a PlayThru compared to 16 seconds for a CAPTCHA. More secure, faster, and an element of fun is definitely an improvement, but already attempts at hacking it have been posted on YouTube and discussed at Hack A Day.
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