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Android O and iOS 11 are both set to release in a matter of weeks, but I'm sorry to say that only one of these new operating systems seem to give tablet users much reason to get excited.
If you want a tablet that offers PC-like productivity and a thriving app selection that bears more native, made-for-tablet apps than it does upscaled or incompatible phone apps, you're probably going to buy an iPad equipped with iOS 11.
And while Android O in general will bring a slew of tweaks that we're excited about, including some interesting features like picture-in-picture mode and faster boot times (all underlined with a promise to make updating easier in the future), Google hasn't made enough changes to impact tablet users in a comparably meaningful way.
Of course, this isn't to say you can't still purchase a capable Android tablet that will likely serve your desired purpose. And yep, it's certainly possible that Google might have a few tablet-specific tricks up its sleeve for the software down the line. But as it stands, iOS 11 capitalizes on Android O's seeming lack of focus on tablet chops in a few key ways, all of which Google can improve on.
Source: http://www.techradar.com/news/ios-11-versus-android-o-on-a-tablet-its-not-even-close
(Score: 3, Informative) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Friday August 18 2017, @07:12AM
I worked for a Mac productivity software publishers in the early nineties. Whenever we introduced a new product or even just a new version of an old product, we issued a press release.
Quite commonly the trade rags would print our PR's verbatim, but with the name of one of their reporters as the byline.
Are you familiar with the term "Feeding the monster"? The monster is Hollywood's incessant demand for new scripts. When a script has been used just once to produce a TV show or a movie, it's no good anymore.
The trade press is just like that.
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