I know that this may set off a religious war, but ok so what.
For the last few years I have gone through two Nexus 7s and recently an Amazon Fire.
I laid the first Nexus to rest after more than a year of great service after it started locking up. A full system reset didn't solve it. Then the second Nexus' battery charging system died (tried a new battery- no go) and it was beginning to start to lock up like the first.
The Fire seems to work ok, but I haven't had it long- just three months. As it has no internal GPS so it is limited. What killed it for me was the NY Times reading app. Full of bugs that the NYT simply can't be bothered to fix. Why one Android app- the Nexus one works fine and another is crap is beyond me.
So I bit the bullet and bought an iPad mini. It cost almost double what an equivalent Nexus would cost. But so far so good. I am hoping that Apple's control of its OS and the apps it sells will make for a better experience. I have only two gripes so far: You cannot buy a book from within the Kindle app. Seems like Apple charges 30% for any app sold through the App Store and Amazon isn't going to pay that. So I have to buy through their Safari web site. 2) The other is that my favorite Android chart plotter app- MxMariner is not available. But lots of others are.
Is this experience typical. Does Apple's hardware/OS sophistication and app control really work to make it better than Google/Amazon/Android?
David
For the last few years I have gone through two Nexus 7s and recently an Amazon Fire.
I laid the first Nexus to rest after more than a year of great service after it started locking up. A full system reset didn't solve it. Then the second Nexus' battery charging system died (tried a new battery- no go) and it was beginning to start to lock up like the first.
The Fire seems to work ok, but I haven't had it long- just three months. As it has no internal GPS so it is limited. What killed it for me was the NY Times reading app. Full of bugs that the NYT simply can't be bothered to fix. Why one Android app- the Nexus one works fine and another is crap is beyond me.
So I bit the bullet and bought an iPad mini. It cost almost double what an equivalent Nexus would cost. But so far so good. I am hoping that Apple's control of its OS and the apps it sells will make for a better experience. I have only two gripes so far: You cannot buy a book from within the Kindle app. Seems like Apple charges 30% for any app sold through the App Store and Amazon isn't going to pay that. So I have to buy through their Safari web site. 2) The other is that my favorite Android chart plotter app- MxMariner is not available. But lots of others are.
Is this experience typical. Does Apple's hardware/OS sophistication and app control really work to make it better than Google/Amazon/Android?
David