Posts by TKMatt 3 publicly visible posts • joined 23 Oct 2013
The Daily Mail is the only website with a photo of the device in question, and it doesn't look like an iPad Air. The chassis and bezel look like they come from an older model iPad. The exposed internals don't match up with the teardown photos of the Air on iFixit, and they don't look much like the iPad 4 either.
Shoddy journalism from the DM, and even shoddier journalism from all the other sites that picked up on the story.
Of course people return iPads - all products have a certain amount of problem units. I don't think anyone would claim otherwise.
The Nexus 7 actually outspecs the iPad mini and the iPad 2 - the two iPads I'm most familiar with. It's cheaper, and yet it still doesn't match for performance. Specs mean very little when comparing iOS to Android because Android works in an entirely different way. If iOS used the same Java-based app platform as Android then specs would be an issue, but Android is outperformed by just about every other mobile OS, even on "inferior" specs.
What I'm saying is that you can buy an iPad and get a product that 99/100 times will work and perform very well. Spending a similar amount on something like the Galaxy tab or a Nexus 10 won't get you that same performance. Maybe if they ditched Android there'd be more competition, but until they do (or Android ditches the Java/Dalvik combo) there's no question that the iPad is the best tablet on the market for performance.
Apple do charge too much for their products, but people buy the iPad because they know it's going to work. I've tested several cheaper tablets and with the exception of the Kindle Fire they've all performed poorly. Little things like apps taking a while to open, or laggy text input etc all add up over time and they become painful to use.
I was using a Nexus 7 over summer to dip my toe into Android development, and after using the iPad I just found the whole experience lacking. The screen isn't as bright, the colours look a little washed out and on the whole it just felt slower.
I'm not saying Apple are the only company making good tablets, but the others who do are charging similar prices to Apple.
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