iPad to fall behind Android this year: IDC

Got my JB update for my Note 10.1 today. Way better than my iPad 4. JB is just streets ahead of iOS. The iFans can fight me all they want ... but it won't change the fact that a growing gap is opening up between Android and iOS. Cool glass and metal Apple hardware designs aren't enough anymore.
 
BeVonk! said:
Got my JB update for my Note 10.1 today. Way better than my iPad 4. JB is just streets ahead of iOS. The iFans can fight me all they want ... but it won't change the fact that a growing gap is opening up between Android and iOS. Cool glass and metal Apple hardware designs aren't enough anymore.
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I agree, I have just sold my iPad4, I was just not using it - it could not compete with my Asus TF-700T, and there are better Android tablets out there than the Asus, for example the Sony Tablet Z.
 
BeVonk! said:
Got my JB update for my Note 10.1 today. Way better than my iPad 4. JB is just streets ahead of iOS. The iFans can fight me all they want ... but it won't change the fact that a growing gap is opening up between Android and iOS. Cool glass and metal Apple hardware designs aren't enough anymore.
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Wouldn't say I'm an iFan, but for me JB 4.1.2 cant make up for the difference in screen quality/clarity, UI smoothness & superior HD (tab) apps on my iPad3 vs. a Note 10.1 I have on loan.
 
I dropped my iPad2 at least 6 months ago, shattering the screen, and haven't bothered to get it fixed. Maybe one day .....
 
Roman4604 said:
Wouldn't say I'm an iFan, but for me JB 4.1.2 cant make up for the difference in screen quality/clarity, UI smoothness & superior HD (tab) apps on my iPad3 vs. a Note 10.1 I have on loan.
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Anyone that says to me that JB is not as smooth as iOS is not a person I will trust with my money. I have JB on my Note 2 and now the Note 10.1 and it is lightning fast, incl. the UI. The screen on the 10.1 is more than good enough for what 90% of people need. My iPad 4 screen is awesome ... but one quickly get used to it and then one realises that it's not really that important. The Note 10.1 offers so much more despite the lower pixel density and resolution. What do we really do with tablets? I am a real power user and the Note 10.1 is good enough for me.
 
BTW my iPad Mini beats my iPad 4 hands down in use time. The Mini has a less impressive screen but it is hardly noticeable but the size and weight of the Mini knocks the iPad 4 out of the park. My Note 10.1 is also much lighter than my iPad 4 which weights a flippen ton compared to its competitors.
 
BeVonk! said:
BTW my iPad Mini beats my iPad 4 hands down in use time. The Mini has a less impressive screen but it is hardly noticeable but the size and weight of the Mini knocks the iPad 4 out of the park. My Note 10.1 is also much lighter than my iPad 4 which weights a flippen ton compared to its competitors.
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I noticed this as well, the iPad Mini is close to the perfect size and weight. And one does not even notice the less than perfect screen because it is very well balanced and calibrated.
 
Roman4604 said:
Wouldn't say I'm an iFan, but for me JB 4.1.2 cant make up for the difference in screen quality/clarity, UI smoothness & superior HD (tab) apps on my iPad3 vs. a Note 10.1 I have on loan.
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The Asus TF-700T has a good Full HD screen, and the Sony Tablet Z has a better screen at 1920x1200.

The iPads no longer have a monopoly on good displays.

The Nexus 7 also has a much better display than the iPad Mini.
 
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BeVonk! said:
Anyone that says to me that JB is not as smooth as iOS is not a person I will trust with my money.
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Believe what you want, but my experience is with original 4.0.4 and upgraded 4.1.2 screen transitions on the Note 10.1 are noticeably choppy e.g. flicking between Touchwiz homescreens or launching apps, say Email.

On the iPad3 with iOS 6.1.2, screen transitions just glide. Its also worse than JB 4.2.2 running on my S2.

BeVonk! said:
but one quickly get used to it and then one realises that it's not really that important
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Come on, besides the mushy fidelity, viewing angles on the Note 10.1's TFT display are so piss poor, that colours look washed out unless you're looking straight at it.

I really don't understand how you can say the 10.1's display/visuals are in the same league as an iPad3/4.
 
Mike Smit said:
He didn't say that from what I understand. :confused:
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BeVonk! said:
but one quickly get used to it and then one realises that it's not really that important.
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If such a disparity in performance is not important (of similar experience), then what is?

Don't get me wrong, I'm also a user/fan of Android, but I don't see how it magically compensates for sub-rate hw.
 
Roman4604 said:
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If such a disparity in performance is not important (of similar experience), then what is?

Don't get me wrong, I'm also a user/fan of Android, but I don't see how it magically compensates for sub-rate hw.
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My bad. Perhaps I misunderstood.
 
Mike Smit said:
My bad. Perhaps I misunderstood.
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You understood correctly. I never said the two screens are of the same quality. What I am saying is that when all strengths and weakness are compared in everyday actual tablet use the superior screen is not enough to make the iPad 4 a better tablet than the Note 10.1. The Note has strengths that means more to me in actual use than the superior screen of the iPad. I said it in another thread as well: The Note 10.1 is the most versatile tablet I've come across and used to date (and I've tested many across a wide spectrum as part of my job). The 8" Note will be a phenomenal device.
 
I've read that the Samsung tablets ... incl the Note 10.1 ... have "washed out colour" displays compared to thw iPads. I've never witnessed this. My Samsung tablet displays are brilliant. My Asus T300 has a washed out display when I place it next to the iPad and Note 10.1 but not the Samsungs. Wonder why Samsung would make a great display for their opposition but not for their own devices?
 
1) How do you spin those numbers to look positive for Microsoft?
2) Right now the tablet picture is very much a case of Apple mopping up the profitability at the high end and everyone else taking deep cuts to subsidize their tablets at the low end in order to compete with Apple. Market share in this case means hardly anything. The tablet picture is much more bleak in its skewing towards Apple than the phone market even is. We're seeing here a picture of an entire aggregated industry of tablets only managing to eke out a 3% combined lead in 4 years of growth in raw sales numbers against one single company. And somehow you can paint this as negative for Apple?
Wonder why Samsung would make a great display for their opposition but not for their own devices?
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I still can't figure that one out to tell the truth. The Samsung-supplied Apple device screens are leagues ahead of their own model screens. Brighter, better viewing angles, better calibrated... it's very puzzling.
 
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