Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard
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: 2) by requerdanos on Friday August 18 2017, @02:16PM
Okay, so if your entire world consists of wanting only two things, "higher number of native tablet apps than of universal or phone apps" and "a tablet that seems subjectively similar to a PC in terms of productivity", and you care about and consider nothing else; and you impose the further restriction that you artificially reduce your choice to selecting either Android-O or IOS-11, then under these precise hypothetical conditions, the author predicts that you will choose the IOS-11 device. Carefully hedging his bets with the word "probably."
This is, at best, damning the iPad with faint praise.
But of course, there are other considerations. Cost/Value (what you get divided by what you pay). Free Software & tinkerer basis vs. Black Box Inside Be Proprietary Dragons basis. Go with what you know vs. strike out with an alien-to-you system.
And then, the interesting combination of the below:
... okay, which one? ...
... So the one you're excited about is the Android O, okay, got it ... so this means?
Wait, what?