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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: 5, Insightful) by ledow on Friday August 18 2017, @07:48AM (1 child)
I administer computers all day, every day, have for twenty years. Hundreds of iPads, dozens of Macs, hundreds of PCs.
I can't imagine a worst piece of advice, the only redeeming feature is that you can just go "Oh, it's Apple, yeah, nothing I can do, take it back to the shop".
I'm sure that works for some people, but honestly they are the biggest wastes of money ever.
The tech is cheap and under-performing, but irreparable.
Everything that you need to buy for it is twice as expensive and has little substitute, from a charging cable upwards.
Though it can "run Windows"... good luck explaining how to do that to people who don't know what computer to get themselves.
I see Apple as what you buy when you don't know anything, but the Apple looks flash and some people regard them as "ooh... fancy", and you want to buy "the most expensive". It's like the people who can't drive but have an enormous 4x4 monstrosity to take their kid to school in.
I can tell when someone buys themselves an Apple - when those people start emailing documents out, and it's all in Apple Pages format and they have no idea how to save it. So they go buy Office, and then realise it's not quite the same.
And, like all the actual-IT guys I know (i.e. people who manage, repair or service machines) - none of whom would touch an iPhone, iPad or iMac - when they break we just look at shrug. The repair will cost you, we probably can't do it ourselves (iPhone screens are shittily fragile, even when cased, and NOTHING "just opens" - you have to crack open screens to replace drives and all kinds of shit), and if something doesn't work there's almost nothing we can do about it.
Some guy once tried to tell me how much more powerful Macs are. So I ran the same version of MacOS he was running, in a VMWare virtual machine, on an 8-year-old laptop, allocated it the same resources it would have on his Mac, and then used it while it also played a Windows 3D game in the background. It literally out-performed his real Mac still.
Apple are a designer brand. And like designer brands, they have no clue about actual design and think it means "make it look good". People buy it because it looks flash, and others have one because they thought it looked flash, and "look at this, isn't it flash".
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Friday August 18 2017, @08:00AM
Thank you. I'm not sure why I read the whole thing, but I feel better now.