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iPad or droid tablet?

kjanracingkjanracing
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 iPad or Android tablet?   Androids are looking pretty good.  iPad is known and good for sure.  Opinions?

Thanks!

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  • Marc RobardsMarc Robards
    If you're going to use it regularly and for not just for an e-book reader, do yourself a favor and pay the extra for the iPad. Android tablets are cheaper, but all of them are a sub-par experience compared to the iPad 2.
  • kurshingkurshing
    I just don't know that I could get one that isn't an Apple...I have an iPad and it is awesome. The very fact that most people compare things to the Apple products as a benchmark, in my opinion, means that you should own 'the benchmark'. If something is 95% as good as something else...I still want that 'something else'.

    Just my 2 cents...
  • kjanracingkjanracing

     Thanks, I have a droid phone it's great.  Apple doesn't support FLash player.  Hoe much of a liability is that?  What wouldn't I be able to watch without FP?  Also, is anyone running WKO on a pad?  Is it compatable?  Looks like there is a USB adaptor for the iPad.  I'm just wanting to know how much of what WE en,ers do, like WKO and garmin and Swimsense and training Peaks it can do.  It does work great for the EN site.  I'm writing this on an iPad Jan got through her work, and I like it.  I'm trying to get a sense of what all it can do.

  • Cary BlancoCary Blanco
    Kurt,

    (Please don't take this stuff the wrong way I know folks that have been lured in by Android Tablets and have had unpleasant experiences.)
    There really isn't a table market. There's an iPad market.
    Android HW is usually locked to a specific release of android SW so you probably won't get an upgrade to the next OS version.
    Flash support is a thing of the past, Adobe is discontinuing Flash on the mobile platform in favor of HTML5. They release dFlash (with an incomplete feature set) for ICS this week as their final Flash for mobile release.

    WKO does not run on any tablet OS as of yet (I wouldn't hold my breath). There is a Training Peas app, not sure how much you can do with it.

    Our of curiosity, which Android tablets did you think 'looked pretty good' ?
  • Tom GlynnTom Glynn
    love my iPad
  • kjanracingkjanracing

     @ Cary: been checking reviews on cnet.  They really liked the Asus EEE pad Transformer Prime.  Higher screen res., better cameras, slightly larger screen.  Great reviews.  It's the only non iPad I'm looking at.  I'll probably go iPad, but it's good to look and ask since others companys are going after the tablet market.

  • kurshingkurshing
    For running Flash, you can download Photon web browser and run Flash on your iPad just fine.
  • SteeleSteele

    i Pad.......there is no substitute!

  • ezellrhezellrh

    -For what it's worth, Santa just delivered three iPad 2's to my house. The one my wife got has spent more time in my hands than in her's. Apple is genius at creating a market for items that no-one ever knew they needed. I'm holding out the rumored iPad 3 (February). While I've never played with a non-iPad tablet, I can say everyone in my house loves iPads.

  • Trent ProughTrent Prough
    Ipad rocks. PERIOD
  • tuckermtuckerm
    iPad. There is no substitute
  • scott dinhoferscott dinhofer
    Just compare the number of apps available for each, that should easily sway you to iPad
  • kjanracingkjanracing
    Thanks for all the input, everyone.
    Sent from my iPad.
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