I abhor Apple and exclusively only use Android, but this is some bullshit. Most apps on Andoid tablets are just crude transformations of their original phone apps, while generally on iPad the apps are at least made for the platform. Not to mention iPads are more powerful hardware-wise than any Android tablet ever made. Tablets are a segment where Apple does not lose, the closest competition is probably Microsoft Surface which is just as pricey, if not more.
I hear you, but at the same time, there are so few apps I want to use on a tablet more than I’d prefer to use it on my phone – which is likewise always with me.
Reading comics, watching video, editing photos, drawing, reading meal recipes on the kitchen bench… that’s about the extent of my tablet use. Browsing social media? I’d rather do it on my phone. Productivity, notes, gaming? Even that, I’d rather do on my phone – if not my Macbook, of course.
So it’s been a pretty easy decision for me to stick with Android tablets, especially Samsung, which obviously ties in well with my S23U.
I have an Android tablet that I mostly use for reading text or watching movies sometimes. I do wind up using my laptop more.
I suspect that a laptop+phone might cover a lot of what she’s talking about better than a tablet.
It took Google more than a decade to dedicate some development resources to larger screens
A laptop will generally beat a tablet on screen size.
I’d still love to see the full desktop Chrome experience on tablets — rendering, extensions, search engines, and all that
Well, there’s an easy way to get the desktop Chrome experience.
Multi-window support has been a staple feature of Android’s history
Also hard to compete with a desktop on.
Landscape mode: Near useless on phones, a default on tablets
Also true of laptops.
… said nobody ever.
For real, I don’t even know people who prefer Android tablets over iPads lol.
I prefer my Tab S8 over my 2019 iPad Pro, because all I use my tablet for is editing photos and watching media — but because it has user profiles, I can also share it with my young kids and control their app and content access, etc. So, Android is a very easy win for me in that regard.
Me. All my apps are on Android and also all the iPad killer apps I’ve been hearing about so far I’d rather use the desktop for.
I would actually if it weren’t for updates, but what I do on the tablet is so undemanding compared to phones that I made the concession for long term updates. Since the iPad for me is just a glorified comic reader most of the time. Didn’t end up being the productivity laptop replacement I thought it would be other than writing on PDFs and drawing
I miss Tachiyomi and would actually get much more out of it than paperback. And vlc on ipad has struggled with playing some encoded x265 files compared to Android, and video options that are Foss so don’t have ads or IAP are so lacking that that expensive paid options like Infuse is pushed.
And the file system is too restrictive. The nice specs seem to be held back so much by the OS. It is more filling the role a Kindle does for ebooks but for comics instead when it comes to the iPad for me. I wish it ran MacOS when you hooked it up to an external monitor or connected a keyboard to it. Although being able to use it as an external monitor with MacOS is really cool.
But, I am thinking of getting a Android tablet next time if there is one that has good custom rom community or at least official lineage OS support, since I would prefer the Android app alternatives for stuff like comics and video players and also being able to easily use emulators and play like DS games with the stylus would be fun.
Fair enough, indeed I suffer from that too, I sideload an app to read my Komga stuff (I’m not sure about the name) and I feel the OS is very limited, although each upgrade this is feeling less and less (with iPhone too) for me these hardware became more usable since iOS 7.
Tbh once you get an iPad you realise it’s just a big iPhone. And then you never use it.
that’s a long ass article just saying “I like big screens”
I prefer my phone because it fits in my pocket, thanks.
I kind of am in the “large phone” camp too, but one point I’d bring up: present-day women’s fashion tends to not be as friendly to large pockets. If someone is female and doesn’t want to use a handbag for their phone, small size may be a big deal. It’s something I try to be sensitive of when I see someone complaining about large phones. If you’re a guy, getting clothing with large pockets is easy. If you’re a girl, it’s a larger constraint.
I’ve seen a lot of women in tight jeans with small pockets and the majority of a large phone hanging out the top of the pocket.
I remember reading that having storage that went beneath skirts, with a slit to access it, used to historically be really common, but the 20th century shift in fashion towards more body-fitting dresses and then pants kind of killed that.
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Yeah.
Do you find it frustrating that dresses and skirts hardly ever have pockets?
Even pants and jackets for women often don’t have pockets you can actually put things in.
Clothes with pockets are a relatively new phenomenon, National Galley of Victoria textile and fashions curator Paola Di Trocchio said.
“In the 17th century women and men actually had external pockets,” she told ABC Radio Melbourne’s Hilary Harper.
While women who worked would wear these pockets on the outside of their clothing for ease of access, others wore the pockets under their skirts.
The large skirts in fashion at the time meant people could hide a lot in their pockets.
By this time men’s clothes often included sewn-in pockets, because although women had begun to go out in public more “it was the men, typically, who handled money”.
Women would often carry their items in a tiny bag, called a reticule, which eventually grew to a sensible size and became the modern handbag.
As for the future, Ms Di Trocchio said there’s hope for pocket-lovers, with pockets potentially becoming larger and more common.
“Because we’ve got smartphones … either our handbags or our pockets probably, design-wise, will respond because that’s what humans are asking for, that’s what they’re desiring.”
