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Originally Posted by junkyardwillie
I think the only real iPad competition is an Android tablet. The Microsoft windows updates alone would be enough to make me not want the device. Then the fact that the OS eats up so much disc space would be the next, it means that you'd need to have a regular harddrive in the device so it has more than enough space for the updates and everything else and I wouldn't want a fragile basic harddrive in a device that I'm going to be carrying everywhere.
Android could give the iPad a run for its money but a good Android tablet won't be coming out for at least another year I'm sure. There will be a bunch of crapware and then after all of the random companies in China come out with one someone will finally make a stable and reliable tablet. I'll enjoy my iPad until then.
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Good points. I also think that there will be better tablets than iPad, but iPad offers me basic usability
now.
I've heard that regular Windows would eat up too many resources on a tablet. Would the mobile version of Windows also suck up so much that it would have to go on a regular hard drive? What's the difference between a hard drive in say an iPod and what could go in a Windows tablet? iPods seem to take wear and tear OK, is why I ask. (I have an old video iPod, with 80GB.)
Even as a non-tech person, it seems to me that Android is a likelier iPad rival than Windows. I think Android tablets might need a lot of iterations to become user-friendly for someone like me, without tech skills, though.