The 7" Tablet market is getting crowded.

[eric]

[John Galt]

you say that i like to harp on how apple has inferior quality of hardware than competition, especially at their pricepoint, and then pretend like no one would take advantage of superior hardware. well i do. further the software for android supports the superior hardware nicely because it has the ability to multitask quite well. i was not able to have the same user experience when i played with my sister's ipad -- admittedly, i didn't use it that much, and i think the extent was a few games and looking at pictures. still, the interface was more of "go back, then open" not "open open open switch open another"

i then was talking about the superiority of google now to siri, because that's easily benchmarked with or without my having to play with it myself.

the ipad could be argued to be superior to the nexus 7, but that i think is simply the display size and clarity on the ipad3. that's the thing it has. i haven't played with the newest iOS but google's current iteration of jelly bean blows the last iOS out of the water easily. of course, so did ICS, biggest difference with jelly bean is the addition of google now (which somewhat already existed well before siri; i could ask it "what's the weather like?" and it'd answer, even on my phone years ago). have YOU played with jelly bean or ICS?

[eric]

Nope, I haven't, and I haven't made any claims which would require knowledge of it.

[Mathurin]

[eric]

I agree with you on Apple because of their lack of support for devices that are 2+ years old (like the original iPad). But I think at the moment, outside of very intensive apps, hardware is far ahead of software and will remain so for now, at least imo.

[Spider]

I've got a first generation Galaxy tab, and it still works reasonably well. It collects dust, since my new tablet is 5 times faster...but in terms of hardware still doing the basic tasks, it does work. Just can't be upgraded any further.

[John Galt]

[eric]

Where did I call Android shitty software?

I state that it wouldn't matter how fast your processor is if you ran it on shitty software. That's not calling Android shitty.

[John Galt]

its implied if android has the superior hardware

[eric]

the confusion is cleared up, you can move along now, no need to dwell on it