| Metallicube said: I've been wanting to get a tablet for awhile also to occupy my long boring hours on the train, but not sure of which to take the plunge on.. I've been pretty dead set on the Ipad for awhile, but hearing/reading some info lately, this topic included, I'm starting to get the impression that there are plenty of suitable tablets that are comparable or even superior to the Ipad in many ways while being a fraction of the price. |
I would be wary of anyone who says that there are superior tablets to the iPads. From my experience, even the most high end tablets outside of the iPad have a lot of delay/lag - and generally have a feeling of being antiquated in terms of interface. The biggest people who have bought into the whole Android thing are those who keep going on about open source, but nearly all of those people don't eeven know what open-source means; when you ask them, they will cite some very gimmicky feature that has nothing to do with the operating system being open source. In addition, when citing similarities to iOS services, they usually bring up some feature that is of a lower quality than the earliest version of the iOS equivalent (ie. Goodle Voice Actions vs Siri). You really don't need to go further than a store where kiosks are available (not sure if you have those in the US), you have the iPad and the Androids so you can see first hand how primitive that non-iPads are when compared to iPads. Other companies just either do not take the tablet market seriously, or do not have the resources to make as high quality of a product as Apple does.
One reason why I think the balance of the market is shifted so much in iOS favour when it comes to the tablet market is because tablets don't have the same advantage of being given away free with a contract, like many Android phones are.
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