[Uehreka]

Hard disagree on the “Apple kind of words” stuff. The iPad is the best tablet. I wish there were good competitors, I’d buy them, but there aren’t. To the extent someone can make a tablet OS with the look and affordances of iPadOS but with the added ability to do stuff iPadOS won’t allow (like writing/compiling code), they should absolutely be encouraged to do so.

[tluyben2]

Yeah, if the ipad pro would run a real OS (like linux) it would be the only device I would have.

[pjmlp]

iPad OS is a real OS, not every real OS has to be an UNIX clone with a CLI.

[tluyben2]

Well, I think you know what I mean: allowing some degree of software freedom. I do not need a cli: ide and compiler though...

My iPad pro is fast enough to do my dev work but I cannot run the tools to do dev.

Your comment is a bit weird as you know very well what people here mean: iPad is generally seen as something you cannot produce things on. I do not agree with that: unlike others here, I type as fast on the keyboard of the pro (not the new one: not tried that) as on my MacBook and Lenovo. But it just misses the applications as they are forbidden. My wife is a writer and she needs nothing else. The only thing I am saying is that for me the walled gardens and particular not compiling restrictions make it a bitter sweet device: I love it but I cannot do my work on it.

[herbst]

Why? Sure samsung ships a horrible android, but in what things is a clean real android behind iOS?

[charrondev]

Are there any android tablets with a decent chip in them? Almost everyone I’ve seen is using a very weak CPU.

The iPad chips just run away from even the top end android tablets. Maybe I wouldn’t care as much but my experience on android tablets is they are just laggy. Slow to open things, little stutters throughout the OS, etc.

[f1refly]

1. This was about software, not about the hardware it runs on. 2. Vanilla android runs very, very smooth because the hardware is optimized for the way it works. If the android tablets you saw where laggy, that's most likely because of the abominations android has been warped into by the manufacturer. My android phone is four years old and still buttery smooth.