-especailly for this simple task. I would be interested to know what the pad does well that droid tabs can not
As gunslinger said, it comes down to the user experience. I would say that the iPads are far more intuitive than the Android OS as a whole. We as technicians may understand it, its what we do, we are good at figuring things out and once we "get" the mindset, we are ok. But you have to remember the general public isnt like us. I have personally tested this myself, where my ex housemates missus sometimes tries to use his Asus Transformer and gets frustrated with it. I was watching her and I could see what was happening, things were happening that werent expected, it wasnt intuitive.
I handed her my iPad to play with for a while and she figured it out so quick (her husband is one of the developers of Swiftkey by the way).
I know so many non geeks that RAVE about their iPad, I almost never hear a non-geek rave about their Android tablet. Thats one of the things that the iPad does better than the Android tablets.
Now, I know someone is going to say "Well, I have no trouble using it", or perhaps you might say "My wife has no trouble using it either". The response to the first one is you are a technician, we are good at these things and that is why we are technicians. The response to "My wife has no trouble using it either" is its possible you either taught her how to use it, or she already has the Android mindset from using other things.
Im talking about getting a random non-technical person from the street, tell them to do a task on both devices. I guarantee they'll find the iPad easier.
Now, some techs may see that simplicity as a negative "I want to change the settings, I want to make it my own, I want to hack....etc..". The thing is that the general public doesnt want to do that, they want a device that they can use.
In this forum, most of the responses are definitely going to be Android, it is better... FOR US. But overall better? Well, it depends on what mindset you approach it with.
Back to my personal preference, I like to do what I need to do quickly, trouble free, without installing dependant packages (thinking more the Linux world here). As a tech, of course I know how to do this, but when I am trying to do something else I dont WANT to do it. I want app so polished, so throughly tested (even though it'll cost more where the Android equivalent will be free), that I can do what I need to do quickly and thus make more money. Watch or listen to
this article to help understand the "time is valuable, get it done" mindset I approach Apple products with.
