Incase your new to Donald Bell's articles, hes a MEGA apple fan boy, and he absolutely hates android. Go look at any of his articles, the topics he picks for every article are something along the lines of "why android tablets failed" or "why apple is the best."
So I purposely read Donald's articles just to see how wacky he can get each week.
Personally, I don't get anyone who complains about Honeycomb.
My Brother has an iPad 2. Before I had used it my plan was to get an iPad 3 when it was released, but after using it i was left with a big WTF is the purpose of this device. I own a touch, and i absolutely love the touch, its bulletproof and a rock solid device, but its extremely limited, which isnt a big deal on a 3.5 inch screen.
I bought a tablet because I wanted an experience similar to a PC, and the iPad is definitly NOT that, its absolutely useless IMHO, if you want an iPad, save the money and get the iTouch, its identical.
I bought the prime because it is actually useable. Like a computer. IOS on a device bigger than an iPhone is an epic fail IMHO.
If i was getting a smartphone it would be iPhone handsdown, its rock solid.
Tablet = Android/windows 8 when that comes out.
This was my first experience with android and I don't understand why people complain about honeycomb? its amazing IMO, i love the widgets, being able to connect to my network computers, use files, remote desktop. I love everything about honeycomb, and don't even care about ICS, I'd take honeycomb over ios 5, any day.
All I hear is android lacks apps omg! Guess what, I have 121 applications on my itouch. Everyone I talk to with an idevice always goes OMG! when i say that, I have yet to talk to a person with more apps that me, and guess how many times I use them? Never... I downloaded them when they came out and were cool, but now i dont use them. Honestly, I find it really hard to believe anyone actually has more apps than 120, and actually uses them?
So 100% of the people I talk to with an idevice have less apps than I do, how is number of apps an excuse anymor? do you plan to use all the hundreds of thousands?
The pure useability of android, beats ios, with its apps.
With a choice between using android and 0 apps vs ios with unlimited apps. I would take android and 0 apps for a tablet any day!
I go play with my brothers and go oh wow this is so smooth! the web browser is faster! omg! That makes this device so much better! haha not, I'd rather mega super duper lag on android than buttery ios.
BTW the app excuse isnt gonna last much longer, so id use it much more if i were an apple fanboy. Android is growing at a much faster rate than ios, and the apps are going to pass ios, very soon.
Apple is going to do exactly the same thing they did with personal computers. They pigeon holed themselves back then by only letting their OS run on their own hardware. Guess what, that isnt how capitalism works, or competition, you can't make your own chips and your own HDD's. Let each company specialize, and make the best parts they can, then buy them (PC's) Windows runs on all types of computers = Win = Massive marketshare = it actually matters.
ios runs on only apple devices vs android runs on any hardware that a company wants = all devices = bound to have the most market share = more people = more developers developing because they want more money from more users
Common sense people, Why develop for a system less people use? Look at the rate androids growing. its a matter of time before android has more apps, more developers, and ios is a tiny little joke, similar to what OS X became.
Sorry for the rant guys
