resist said:
You say it's a better OS but don't give justification.
I've given justification countless times. I'm not going to repeat everything again. But let me give you one little example. UI Threading. On iOS, the UI thread has ultimate CPU priority. Every single time you touch the screen to do something, rendering that is given #1 priority over all other tasks. That means it's *always* as fast as it can be, regardless of what else is running.
Android doesn't do that. The UI thread stands in line with everything else waiting for CPU. If you have a shitton of apps running in the background, the whole thing slows down. The way they get around that is by throwing more and more CPU and GPU at it. That helps certainly, but it's nowhere near the appropriate solution for a touch based interface. And it comes with it's own problems like cost, size, heat and battery life. That's why *every* Android bit of hardware has that awful lag in the UI. Even shiny new gadgets like say the SGS2. Sure, it's *better*, but it's still there, on ALL OF THEM. ICS doesn't fix it either - they can't fix that without rebuilding half the OS from the ground up.
Don't even get me started on stupid design decisions like the back button. You know, the button that changes states and does things differently all the time. Am I going to go back, or am I going to exit the app back to the homescreen. WHO KNOWS, LETS JUST PRESS IT AND SEE! :>
resist said:
You say it's better hardware, when it actually has less pixels (I would take AMOLED over 'retina-display' any day), less battery and less ram than the tab 10.1.
http://www.samsung.com/global/microsite/galaxytab/10.1/spec.html
1280 x 800
iPad 3rd gen: 2048 x 1536, RAM is 1gb in the 3rd gen. If you think AMOLED is better than Retina that's fine, but you're the first person I've ever heard say that. I will give you that blacks look AWESOME on AMOLED. That's about it - Retina wins every other time.
Now, we were talking about iPad2 in your case. I agree, it has less resolution. I agree it has less RAM - but iOS is SO much better at resource management than Android it's not even funny, so the RAM isn't actually an issue. As a further point to that, better hardware commonality means better OS and app support as your device ages, and RAM is a part of that. Battery life - I don't know anyone who claims their Android device lives up to it's battery life claims. I can certainly tell you that the iPad does and often exceeds stated life. But I'm not going to get too far into that one.
But again, as I've said to you twice, you're benchracing hardware specs. Because of the way iOS and the hardware are so tightly integrated, this is a pointless argument. iOS simply does more with less hardware because the OS is built better. It's a far better overall user experience.
resist said:
You say it has better apps when you know it has most of the same apps.
It has a lot of the same apps. It doesn't, by any stretch of the imagination, have "most of the same" apps. Games is a prime example - you have WAY more franchises on iOS, a lot higher quality (some of the turds EA pumps out notwithstanding), a lot wider range and depth.
There is not the depth in productivity apps (in fact none of the Android apps I've seen come anywhere CLOSE to how good iOS ones are in this area, things like Pages, Notes, Keynote, iMovie, iPhoto, GarageBand jsut to name the Apple products are genuinely impressive, polished apps), there is not the depth in....well just about anything. Android wins in having a lot more free apps I guess, if that's something you care about when purchasing a toy worth hundreds of dollars+.
The only apps I found on Android that came even close in quality to their iOS counterparts are the ones that are pretty much clones, from companies with lots of experience with cross-platform support - Dropbox, Foursquare, Twitter, Facebook (although that sucks equally everywhere), Soundhound, Notational Acceleration. A small handful of casual games. That's about it. Nothing else I found came close - sure, there might have been half a dozen different options for App X in the Market, but most of them sucked. There's a lot of suck in the App Store too, but a much lower ratio. Generally you have one to three good ones, one or two brilliant ones, and a tiny handful of "meh".
But you're not going go buy an iPad anyway, so I don't know why i'm even bothering...... I'll just reiterate my point. The iPad2 is a higher quality experience than the Galaxy Tab 10.1, for almost half the price.
*i actually LIKE the higher end Galaxy Tab hardware. It's about the only non-iPad tablet on the market I would buy. But I'd still get an iPad2 over it.
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So hope they do the same for Vice City / San Andreas 
what's up with their OS names.