I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it
I abandoned my iPad for an Android tablet and didn’t hate it
The iPad Pro has long been my go-to tablet, so what would happen when I left it for the Google Pixel Tablet? It changed my opinion about Android tablets.
If Google can’t be bothered to create decent tablet apps for their own apps, why are any other devs going to do it?
clearly you’ve never met a non-programmer with an app idea. so many random people have billion dollar ideas they’re willing to give you for free, and how dare you shrug that idea off as not worth your time, they’re giving you a lottery ticket they can’t turn in because they don’t “get” computers, but you do, so with just your skills and effort, and their genius idea you never could have thought of because you’re not an “idea person”, YOU could be a billionaire.
Yes, I've had one or two sales pitches in my time after admitting to being a software developer.
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I may be conflating foldables with tablets which might not be fair. Most of my experience was that of poorly scaled first party apps and tons of wasted space. Looks like they fixed chrome though. Still, reading articles from late 2022 about Google finally getting their act together is saying a lot for a ten year old product.
capitalism
Given their market share it’s not that. They have no problem selling phones, but maybe they lucked into that more than anything.
Wow. What a ringing endorsement. 😬
I tried for months to use my tab S8+ as a laptop replacement. Ultimately sold it to get a Windows laptop. So much is possible with stupid hoops to jump through.
I have an older Samsung Tab 6 and I love it. The stylus is wonderful for drawing and painting, the screen and speakers make it great for watching movies on vacation, and the battery lasts all day.
You can install a real desktop style browser and terminal. That makes it easy to get real work done.
My experience has been so good that'll probably upgrade this at the end of the year. I still have my laptop, and that's my main go to device for getting things done but the tablet is just effortless.
I actually got one of these second hand for a holiday to replace an ancient tablet that had a battery life measured in minutes.
It's really good for the money I think.
If my iPad Pro was taken away from me tomorrow, and I needed to choose a non-iPad replacement, I’d pick the Amazon Fire Max 11 over the Pixel Tablet. It managed to change my opinion about Android tablets a little more than the Pixel Tablet, which despite it being much better than I thought it would be when used every day, is still flawed. The Amazon tablet isn’t perfect either, but it is a lot cheaper, and that makes its problems far easier to forgive.
Where do I go from here? I like the Pixel Tablet, and it seems some Android tablets are better than I remember, but this is hardly a ringing endorsement. That’s why I’m returning to my iPad Pro and Magic Keyboard. I like the Fire Max 11, and I have a better understanding of the Pixel Tablet’s strengths after more time with it, but the fact is my three-year-old iPad still does everything better than the pair of them.
The thing is (and I say this as someone who LOVES my iPad mini), the only people who will notice the deficiencies will be people who have used an iPad long enough to notice what's missing. It's the same way that I couldn't understand how people didn't rebel against the crappy text on Windows circa 2004. The Mac was so clearly better at rendering text, but nobody who didn't own a Mac thought there was anything wrong.
Windows eventually caught up on that, but the point is that you notice what is taken away more than you notice what is added. And if you have no basis for comparison, you have no idea what you're missing. People will accept what is "good enough."
Can ipads access smb shares without having to buy an app yet? That was always the deal breaker for me
Yes, for a few years now, via the Files app.
https://osxdaily.com/2019/11/04/how-connect-smb-share-iphone-ipad-files-app/
I have the OnePlus Pad and it's the closest thing to an iPad with its amazing display ratio (7:5) and magnetic keyboards/stylo accessories
I've used a Nexus 7 mini-tablet for ten years. It runs on Android 6.0 and has been able to do everything I need from a tablet. It only started to slow down drastically this summer, I guess I'll have to flash LineageOS to give it a few more years of life.
I have a Galaxy Tab S6 Lite and I like it. Its not perfect, but it does what I need it to pretty well.
Same. Mine is the original S6 Lite, and my issue with it is the slow Exynos 9611 SoC. Wish it had something better like one of its Snapdragon contemporaries.