iPad 2 vs "the others" -What I don't get

[coochiekuta]

of the people who picked up the xoom, no one can say what their user experience is but them.

personally, i am not a tablet person but i certainly cannot tell you if your experience is lacking.

with an idevice(and the like) you dont have to worry about specs because those things you call apps are made specifically for those devices. they wont benefit from more ram because they arent written to use more ram. they are very specific.

its similar to gaming on a console. the games you run on a ps3 you cannot get anything more out of them than what you first see. they are at their limits because they are made for that specific hardware. pc gaming you can get more out of your games because the hardware will drive them better.

 

[logimech]

Another point of view

Sorry didn't read all the replies, but I don't think anyone made the point that iOS devices simply have many orders of magnitude more developers than Android does. (Which is driven but infrastructural reasons such as less profitability and visibility in the Android marketplace.)

More developers leads to higher quality software, which leads to higher throughput of hardware. Good software running on a 5 yr. old computer can outperform bad software running on a modern top-of-the-line machine.

Thus specs won't matter until Android can inspire a wave of developers to develop Android apps. Until then (which may be 1-2 generations of tablets away), there's not a big incentive for developers to create more than substandard quality apps.

This is assuming, of course, that the particular tablet buyer is looking to enjoy a wealth of Apps on their tablet rather than just using it for e-mail, books, and web-browsing.

 

[k995]

Hi, I've seen many people comparing the iPad 2's hardware to the other coming tablets this year and they say that the iPad 2 is lacking this and that. I know hardware matter, but is it not the user experience that matter the most?

I mean, I've had a Htc desire, and the specs are similar to iPhone 4 (which is my main phone today), everything from apps to games runs much smoother on the iPhone, especially games.

So the question I'm asking, why do people care if the iPad has a little less ram or cpu power when everything probably is going to be smoother and looking better graphically on the iPad 2? It feels like iOS is using the hardware better than the android os. In addition iOs is the platform that have "all" the apps.

I hope you do realise you are comparing product that differ in price? Desire is half the price of an iphone 4 .

To answer your question, I care that it has little ram because that hampers its usability, barely able to run program next to each other (multitasking) barely able to keep several tabs in safari in memeory without constant reloading when switching .


As for apps: I dont see apps that android is lacking compared to ios, but I do see some apps in android I dont even have with a jailbroken iphone.