Amazon and Apple Earn Top Customer Experience Ratings for Computers & Tablets

We recently released the 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 331 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

Amazon (Kindle) and Apple deliver the best customer experience across computer & tablet makers, according to the 2017 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual customer experience ranking of companies based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

Amazon took the top spot out of the 12 computer and tablet makers included in this year’s ratings, earning a score of 74% and coming in 74^th place overall out of 331 companies across 20 industries. Apple earned the second highest rating with a score of 68% and an overall rank of 189^th.

Amazon Kindle Leads Computers and Tablets in Customer Experience

We recently released the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings that ranks the customer experience of 293 companies across 20 industries based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers.

Amazon (Kindle) and Apple deliver the best customer experience in the computer and tablet industry, according to the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings, an annual ranking of companies based on a survey of 10,000 U.S. consumers. Amazon took the top spot with a rating of 76%, placing it 41^st overall out of 293 companies. Apple came in second with a rating of 68% and an overall ranking of 119^th.

While the Temkin Experience Ratings have included computer makers for five years, it added tablets to this category in 2015. Amazon’s Kindle—a newcomer to the Ratings—unseated Apple as the highest-scoring computer and tablet maker, a position Apple had held for the previous three years.

At the other end of the spectrum, Lenovo and Asus tied for the lowest-rated computer and tablet maker, each with a rating of 55% and an overall ranking of 245^th. Lenovo dropped six percentage-points from 2014, while this is the first year that Asus has been included in the Ratings.

Overall, the computer & tablet industry averaged a 63% rating in the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings and tied for 11^th place out of 20 industries. It was also one of only 5 industries to improve its rating over the past year, increasing its average by 1.2 percentage points.

Here are some additional findings:

• The ratings of all computer makers in the 2015 Temkin Experience Ratings are as follows: Amazon (76%), Apple (68%), Hewlett-Packard (64%), Barnes & Noble (60%), Toshiba (60%), Sony (60%), Acer (57%), Dell (57%), Lenovo (55%), and Asus (55%).
• Sony (+5 points) and Apple (+1 point) were the only companies in this industry to improve their ratings between 2014 and 2015.
• Lenovo (-6 points), Acer (-4 points), and Dell (-2 points) declined by the most percentage-points between 2014 and 2015.