AllThingsD » worst http://allthingsd.com Sun, 27 May 2012 01:54:58 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://allthingsd.com/theme/images/logo-rss.jpg All Things Digital http://allthingsd.com/ 144 22 The Best and Worst States for Online Shopping http://allthingsd.com/20110316/the-best-and-worst-states-for-online-shopping/ http://allthingsd.com/20110316/the-best-and-worst-states-for-online-shopping/#comments Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:13:58 +0000 Tricia Duryee http://emoney.allthingsd.com/?p=3638 Not all states are equal when it comes to shopping online.

Extrabux, a price comparison site that pays you cash for making purchases from particular retailers, has compiled a list of the best and worst states for e-commerce customers.

The company said it evaluated four factors when making its list: Shipping time, including the location of many warehouses; shipping costs; sales tax rates; and states where you don’t have to pay sales tax at all.

The top five states were generally praised for having the lowest shipping costs, the fastest shipping times and the cheapest sales tax rates (if they charged at all).

  1. Delaware
  2. Mississippi
  3. New Hampshire
  4. West Virginia
  5. Oregon

The five states at the bottom of the list ended up there because of long shipping times and high costs due to shipping or sales taxes or both. The results may surprise you, since the group includes two states with big populations and the state where Amazon.com is based, among other e-tailers.

  1. Hawaii
  2. Alaska
  3. California
  4. New York
  5. Washington

A full breakdown of the reasons these states were chosen can be found on the Extrabux Blog.

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Taking Walt’s top spot this year was none other than Apple’s iPad. For a 1.0 product, the iPad was amazing. With the new iOS 4.2 operating system and its huge selection of apps, the iPad continues to stay ahead of the competition.

High-speed 4G networks in the United States took the second spot. As the world goes more mobile, the availability of faster networks is critical. Today, 3G networks are bursting at the seams, and the promise of these networks will be something to watch closely in 2011.

Tied for third were the Samsung Galaxy S and the Apple iPhone 4. The Galaxy S is representative of the powerful force that Android has become within the smartphone marketplace. Despite no longer being the only game in town and all the initial controversy over its antenna, the iPhone 4 is still the best overall smartphone, according to Walt.

Turning his attention to his worst reviewed products for 2010, Walt gave the Dell Streak tablet a thumbs-down. Calling the Streak a tweener, he believed this Android device was too big to be a phone yet too small to be a tablet.

While no company got it right when it came to integrating the Internet with the television, Google TV was certainly not ready for prime time. Walt felt that it was basically a geek product, with a confusing user interface and clumsy keyboard options. Finally, the TiVo Premiere was another product that failed to meet Walt’s expectations. As a TiVo fan and user, he felt TiVo Premiere, with its cluttered interface, shared Google TV’s shortcomings. Simply put, the execution was not there, and the price was too high.

Walt did stress that these products might be great someday, but 2010 was not their year.

Walt’s Best Products of 2010

  1. Apple iPad
  2. 4G wireless networks
  3. Samsung Galaxy S and Apple iPhone 4

Walt’s Worst Products of 2010

  1. Dell Streak
  2. Google TV
  3. TiVo Premiere
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