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Reply to: by Hamaki
Well, he is tied, to the Android ecosystem, so there’s a bunch of potential dealbreakers with the iPad Mini worth mentioning:
-If you’re heavy on the use of Google services, such as Gmail or Google Drive, your experience in iOS will be subpar compared to what you’re used to in Android.
-In Android, you could use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, and others to upload your files to the cloud. In iOS (and thus the Mini)those apps can only access your already uploaded content. You may still upload content from your iPad Mini to some of those services, but you’ll need a separate, specific app for each and every type of file (a PDF viewer to upload PDF’s, a .DOC editor to upload DOCs, and so on), so you’ll be needing half a dozen apps to replace just one.
-The screen in the iPad Mini, as every other iPad, is 4:3 in landscape. Meaning when you watch video, it will be letterboxed.
By the way “you cannot touch the edge of the Nexus screen” is a false statement. The Nexus 7 also has thumb rejection. Not just that, but it actually has a larger lateral bezel too, which means not only you can hold it without interacting with the screen, you won’t be ocluding the content of it. Apple couldn’t add that bezel because if they did, the device would be too wide to hold comfortably.
So my advice to SpaceRooster would be: be open to all options, read as many reviews of each device as you can find (and not just one), test all the devices before purchase if possible, and never, ever listen to advice given in a comments section: you’ll get the most biased, unreliable info in the whole Internet (and yes, that includes the advice i just gave you…i do embrace the irony of it).
Reply to: by Hamaki
Well, he is tied, to the Android ecosystem, so there’s a bunch of potential dealbreakers with the iPad Mini worth mentioning:
-If you’re heavy on the use of Google services, such as Gmail or Google Drive, your experience in iOS will be subpar compared to what you’re used to in Android.
-In Android, you could use Dropbox, Google Drive, Skydrive, and others to upload your files to the cloud. In iOS (and thus the Mini)those apps can only access your already uploaded content. You may still upload content from your iPad Mini to some of those services, but you’ll need a separate, specific app for each and every type of file (a PDF viewer to upload PDF’s, a .DOC editor to upload DOCs, and so on), so you’ll be needing half a dozen apps to replace just one.
-The screen in the iPad Mini, as every other iPad, is 4:3 in landscape. Meaning when you watch video, it will be letterboxed.
By the way “you cannot touch the edge of the Nexus screen” is a false statement. The Nexus 7 also has thumb rejection. Not just that, but it actually has a larger lateral bezel too, which means not only you can hold it without interacting with the screen, you won’t be ocluding the content of it. Apple couldn’t add that bezel because if they did, the device would be too wide to hold comfortably.
So my advice to SpaceRooster would be: be open to all options, read as many reviews of each device as you can find (and not just one), test all the devices before purchase if possible, and never, ever listen to advice given in a comments section: you’ll get the most biased, unreliable info in the whole Internet (and yes, that includes the advice i just gave you…i do embrace the irony of it).