What is a boon to us consumers is a death knell for computer companies.
This is great for us consumers of course: but not so great for those handset manufacturers.
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By 2015, more than 100 million US consumers will play games regularly on their phone.
What makes this massive group (60% of US consumers) different, is their tight hold on core values.
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Two thirds of US consumers go online from 2 or more devices, including multiple computers in many cases.
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Gasoline became one dollar too expensive for US consumers to bear in an election year back in March.
All of which is great for us consumers: we have people spending their money providing us with things.
Thus, there was no net US demand at all from US consumers using their homes to finance larger consumption.
Maybe its time some of us consumers grow a little with the times.
Oh, and allows US consumers to buy higher quality goods at cheaper prices.
Scottish cashmere is a favourite among US consumers and if the import taxes are imposed, the industry could be destroyed.
Ford, GM and Chrysler were caught flat-footed when US consumers began switching en masse to smaller, more fuel efficient vehicles.
Doing so would remove the exposure to the weak US dollar, which is making Saabs more expensive to US consumers.
For all the concern US consumers are DOA, spending is (and has been for many months) at all-time highs.
Dannon has done its share to brilliantly entice and inspire US consumers to eat Greek yogurt with innovative and delicious products.
Home to 60% of US consumers, voters in the new Heartland pride themselves on self-sufficiency and the benefits of working hard.
Depending on whether you count e-readers in the category, roughly a third of US consumers over age 13 currently own a tablet.
Chinese consumers love Apple products, at least as much as US consumers.
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Strategy Analytics surveyed 2, 285 US consumers asking them what electronics product they were planning to buy in the next 12 months.
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What: Sony Mobile Communications brings the Xperia acro S to US consumers looking for premium specifications and beautiful design with extra durability and water resistance.
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What: Sony Mobile Communications brings the Xperia advance to US consumers looking for a full-featured Android smartphone and beautiful design with extra durability and water resistance.
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The global steel industry carried on in its own sweet way, steel got more expensive for US consumers and the big integrated US producers carried on going bust.
The destruction of housing values left many US consumers without collateral for loans, and without a means for refinancing as their properties were worth less than what they had paid for them.
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But the sugar industry argued this change would be a bitter pill for US consumers and would only add to the confusion about a sweetener that has drawn criticism by some health advocates.
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In a Forrester survey of 4, 650 US consumers conducted online in August 2012, 31% reported that they had a credit card on file with Amazon, compared with 18% that have one stored with Apple, and 5% with Google.
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Consumers prefer Windows to Android on tablets by a wide margin: 46% of US consumers considering buying a tablet prefer Windows on that tablet, compared with 9% who prefer Android, according to a Forrester study conducted in January 2011.
The divergence between Buzz scores in the US and UK suggests that US consumers have not paid close attention to the UK riots, or that they at least have not accepted the association that the UK media has made between the brand and the rioters.
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If I had to make a prediction, I think that sales are going to be slightly depressed where 4G networks are limited or not available, which is good news for US consumers because the efforts to keep the iPhone 5 in stock will have a larger pool of devices to draw from.
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Far from consumer optimism, the rise in retail sales may reflect a situation in the US where consumers are making purchases merely because they can.
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