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Comment Re:iPhone format? (Score 1) 128

If you are saying that the iPad will begrudgingly run old iPhone-only apps, that's true. But describing it as a limiting factor is not reasonable. Of the dozens of iPad apps I use - and I do use quite a lot - not one is running in iPhone compatibility. No matter what your need is, there are iPad-native apps to meet it. Usually it's the same binary - a universal app.

Android was developed from day one with varying screen sizes in mind so at least in my experience every application will successfully scale to the window. In my experience in the Apple ecosystem there are many current applications which only have phone layouts, this is definitely a downside when compared with Android tablets.

If it were possible, I'd install Android on my iPad without any regrets.

Comment Personally I bought an ipad (Score 3, Interesting) 128

I think unfortunately the Apple hardware is much better than whats available for Android in the tablet ecosystem.

That said, personally I feel that the Apple ecosystem is much worse than Androids for tablet applications despite claims to the contrary. While its been a while since I used and Android tablet when I did all the applications would fill the screen, on Apple there are a large number of applications which only have phone layouts thus render in a small window on a tablet. Also, ipad's notification system is shockingly bad compared to Android.

The other part that sucks is being stuck with Safari. On Android phones I use Firefox with ublock origin, with safari you're limited to content blockers which are much more restricted in terms of their capabilities so its not unusual to end up with ads or broken pages. I assume if you're in Europe there might be other options?

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