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iOS 11 Versus Android O on a Tablet? It's Not Even Close

posted by Fnord666 on Friday August 18 2017, @05:42AM   Printer-friendly
from the One-OS’s-loss-is-another’s-gain dept.

MrPlow writes:

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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

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  • (Score: 2) by Pino P on Friday August 18 2017, @04:47PM

    by Pino P (4721) on Friday August 18 2017, @04:47PM (#555966) Journal

    I still recommend iOS devices to everyone who asks me.

    Including people who are learning to program or who program as a hobby? I haven't seen any indication that Apple plans to introduce an iPad counterpart to AIDE [android-ide.com], an IDE for developing full Android apps on an Android tablet. Or ought Swift Playgrounds to be enough for anyone?

    a Mac if they're a bit more sophisticated.

    Oh.

    For myself, I use an iPhone. I administer computers every day for my job so I don't want another computer to baby. It works, always, and never has to be fiddled with.

    The one flaw of an iPhone for administering computers is that Settings is the only iOS app allowed to see nearby WLAN access points. There's no public API in iOS for enumerating nearby SSIDs and MAC numbers, which is why the WiFi-Where app had to be pulled from the App Store and Mozilla Stumbler was never added in the first place.

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