Akbar Ali Mustofa

1923042015
Writing Scientific Article
Subject Guide: Mahpul, M.A., Ph.D

I. RESULTS

No Product Trends
Month
. Desktops Laptops Tablets
1 January 80 30 10
2 February 45 25 15
3 March 25 35 20
4 April 20 50 35
5 May 10 45 60
6 June 5 55 95

II. FINDINGS
Based on the table above, it is shown that there are significantly different
variations among three product trends of gadgets such as desktops (PC), laptops,
and tablets.
From the data of the table, the trend of Laptops become up and down
product. An average of the range is often unstable per month rather than other
products. This inconstancy has been illustrated in the data that the rating is in
due date January achieved up to 30 while the next month there is a reduction
within 25. Then it constrastly occurs an increasing by the consumers’ usage
within 50 in April. After happened reduction in May, this product can be highly
increasing a high achievement up to 55 in June.
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Writing Scientific Article
Subject Guide: Mahpul, M.A., Ph.D
Surprisingly, the use of Tablets product is the highest by the consumers’
demand within recent months respectively than Product of Desktops and
Laptops are. This indicates that Product of Tablets has the best quality product
among other products. There are several advantages by using tablets as followed
to send short messages, for navigation, and in the proportion with specific
activities such as gaming, watching movie, sharing photos and videos (Brohl, et.
al: 2018). It has been mentioned in the data that a number of consumers is the
most often to use the tablets product with increasing highly up to 95 in June, yet
it is clearly constrasting in January which is taken only 10. Beside that, the
number of tablets product trends has also significant different numbers than
laptops product acquires 55 which obtains around a half of it and followed up by
desktops product which is used only 5 in totally
On the other hand, it can be seen that Laptops product might be regarded
as being the worst and the lowest product trends among other product trends due
to the reduction of the consumers’ usage. Desktops product trends overcome
reduction monthly. In January, the consumers use towards desktops product with
the number of 80. Whereas, it has significantly contrast in June that the number
of consumers tend to decrease up to 5 by using this kind of product.

III. DISCUSSION
The trends of making use of gadgets among consumers was totally in line with
the prior research (Bohr, et al: 2018), that consumers tended to use desktops than
laptops and tablets product , particularly in the early month due mainly to lack of
familiarity with the new competitors, i.e. laptops and tablets.

However, having been familiar with making use of both desktops and laptops,
consumers became more curious to tablets product. As stated by Marcial (2010),
it has features where the core capabilities of small scale devices has increased
like battery life, processing speed, network redundancy, and availability and
display quality, barriers to adoption have all but vanished and use of this device
appears to be less and less task dependent. Still it remains hard to understand
and quantify the ways in which mobile devices perform in a manner appropriate
with that of a traditional desktop or laptop system. Many well tested evaluation
methods have been used to analyze thr usability of desktop computing system
though these same approaches have only just begun to be used in the study of
mobile devices.

Comparing the results of the analyses presented in the paper to previous study
according to Brohl (2018) showed that “the use of technological devices in the
older group was a lot lower than the rates of ownership that were found by other
researchers. For example, it has previously been found that of subjects aged 64
years and older 48% own a desktop PC, 41% own a smartphone, and 3.4% own
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Subject Guide: Mahpul, M.A., Ph.D
a tablet PC. The result for the oldest technology generation of this study showed
an average of 24% for desktop PC usage, an average of 7.2% for smartphone
usage, and an average of 3.9% for tablet PC usage. Maybe the reason for this
discrepancy lies in the sample. Previous studies tended to base their sample
mainly on single cultural groups, whereas this study used a sample composed of
subjects from the United States, Germany, China, and Japan.”

The current study also provided evidence that features of both laptops and
tablets were regarded by the majority of the respondents (80%) as being more
complete and simple to operate that those of tablets as stated by the 3
respondents below as follows:
As quoted by respondent 1 aged under 19, he expressed that both laptops and
tablets are simple and enable to present everywhere than desktops do not. Yet, it
is not impossible to use desktop because it makes the users comfortable with the
large screen and all functioned features. Then, quoted by respondent 2 aged
between 19-25, she utters that tablets is not more complicated and easy to carry
rather than other media. Dealing with that three electronic devices, it has a
significantly efficient usage to use among them such as desktops can be only set
at home because of big screen and patented case. Meanwhile a tendency to
tablets are as main device. This device has small design, truly slight, easy to
access, and the functions are deemed like desktops and laptops do.
Antoher quotation by respondent 3 aged above 25, she stated “laptops can
operate a lot of works more better than tablets do while sometimes tablets are
not determined rather than laptops do, i.e. to creating a design and or operating a
particular application. The using of laptops is more relevant rather than using
tablets because of having a small screen. Then, the use of laptop is easier rather
than desktops due to it can be easily brought in many conditions”.

In addition, the most of users tend to use a little and simple gadget which is
provided in tablets and also based on the age is considered. This suggests that
desktops are deemed as being dated in terms of features and operating systems.
Furthermore, there are aging procceses which might account for the differences
in the studied activities and the product capabilities factors. This need to be
included in future research.
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1923042015
Writing Scientific Article
Subject Guide: Mahpul, M.A., Ph.D
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Christina Brohl, Janina Jablonski, peter Rasche. 2018. Desktop PC, Tablet PC, or
Smartphone? An Analysis of Use Preferences in Daily Activities for Different
Technology Generations of a Worldwide Sample.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/325468715.
Laura Haak Marcial. 2010. A Comparison of Screen Size and Interaction Technique:
Examining Execution Times on Smartphone, Tablet, and Traditional Desktop
Computer. University of North Carolina.