Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“I would definately avoid the iPad, unless you are already locked into Apple products.
It's a one way street, you never own any of the content you buy with Apple, you have to give it all back if you want to leave.”
*All* music purchased from iTunes is free of DRM, and can be played on *any* device that can play AAC audio files, whether it's made by Apple, Samsung, HTC, Dell, Sony, Microsoft, or anyone else. It's been that way for a few years now.
Purchased videos (films, TV) are protected by DRM. This, however, is due to the studios, and would be exactly the same with purchased videos on any other platform. Ditto for purchased books.
Apps... well, obviously if you leave Apple, you won't be able to run iOS apps you've previously purchased, as you won't have an iOS device anymore!... However the same applies to Android, if you leave that, what would you do with any purchased Android apps? You are "locked in" with Android just as you are with iOS.
Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“Almost all tablets these days are running Android 4.0. Some took a while longer than others to get they upgrade, but all the major brands are all on 4 now (Asus, Galaxy Tab, Sony, and Xoom).”
Google's own official figures state that only
7.1% of Android devices are currently running Ice Cream Sandwich. This does include phones as well as tablets (& of course far far more Android phones have been sold than Android tablets), but is still rather poor going when you consider the version share of each version of iOS (much higher for the newer ones!).
Google and its manufacturing and carrier partners only promise
18 months of updates, subject to hardware compatibility... Hardly any better than what you get with Apple (worse, even).
Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“The beauty of Android is you aren't locked to a single hardware supplier, you take your apps and content with you. Anything you buy is locked to your account and accessable from any Android device you signed in on, be it phone or tablet.”
You take it with you
from one Android device to another... same as with iOS, from one iOS device to another (only difference is that they're all made by Apple).
Anything you download from iTunes is locked to your account and accessible from any iOS device you have, be it phone or tablet.
Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“Unlike Apple, which needs separate apps for Phone and tablet...the same Android aps works with both phone and tablets”
More and more iOS apps are now "Universal" - instead of having a separate iPad app and a separate iPhone app, there is *one* app that works on both, with different UI and resolutions as appropriate, optimised for either device.
There are more
iPad-optimised apps (whether iPad-specific or "Universal") on iOS than there are
tablet-optimised apps on Android.
Sure, non-tablet Android apps will still work on Android tablets, however non-tablet iPad apps will also still work on the iPad too. And on both platforms, running non-tablet apps on a tablet isn't too pretty.
Originally Posted by ClashcityRocker:
“ and suffers fragmentation,”
Some fragmentation, but nothing compared to Android (see my earlier bit about Android's version share).
More iOS devices run the latest version of iOS than Android devices run the latest version of Android.
https://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/...-15-days/19290
http://www.bgr.com/2012/04/05/is-the...ainst-android/
One manufacturer, with a smaller range of devices, means far less fragmentation than with Android.
There are not multiple devices to support.
There are not multiple manufacturers or carriers making their own tweaks to the OS, delaying implementation of newer versions.
*Everyone* (so long as their device is not too old) is able to update to the latest version of iOS at the same time, directly from Apple, rather than having to wait for Samsung, HTC, etc. to release an update, or wait for their carrier to release an update if they brand it also.