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Originally Posted by pl001
Amazon allows you to sideload. Apple does not.
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Yes and no, depending on your focus.
On the user's (not developer's) side, Amazon is far more aggressive than Apple about proprietary content. Perhaps I lead a sheltered life, but I've yet to hear of anyone's music library being wiped by Apple. Both impose useless proprietary formats for ebooks, but Apple's format is not the only acceptable one on iDevices, which means it doesn't matter unless one chooses to buy into that format (which I do not).
Amazon's interface is far more limiting than Apple's and involves an UI overlay atop Android which I find awful. If you're not interested purely in buying content from Amazon, you're far better off rooting.
On the other hand, you could root the original KF (haven't been reading up on the HD), whereas iDevices can only be jailbroken, and sometimes with consequences. That's a definite minus.
For people who intend only to use a tablet without rooting, Amazon strikes me as the more controlling of the two. For people who choose to root, Apple is the one to avoid (with a major caveat; see below).
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Originally Posted by bugjd
see, the argument against as laid out just now by hrosvit is how these things should go. recognizing you use your tech one way while others may use theirs a different way. and whatever works best for an individual, by whatever means they use to determine "works best", should really be the end of the argument.
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1. Earlier on, someone said they were interested purely in functionality and not the user experience. And while I do give full credit to the user experience, there are also limitations posed by software and its hardware implementation.
A lot of music software -- particularly softsynth, module and notation software -- is better on a touch screen than a keyboard, and the original workstations of the '80s bear this out. The majority of professional software that works best on a tablet is in the Apple library, therefore Apple tablets become more useful than the rest for musicians regardless of specs.
In the past, Android's UI was far too jerky to be relied upon for timing-accurate uses. Jellybean appears to address that issue, but I'd still want to make sure before depending on it for casual music or film editing.
2. To buy what people on MR tell you to without discovering which device you yourself prefer is truly to be the sheep which others on this thread claim Apple users to be.
I'm a Samsung, Sony, Asus, Amazon, B&N or Apple user depending on the nature of the task. I would be succumbing to internet peer pressure if I refused to buy the one tablet with the only viable music library because its specs, pricing, marketing and social politics seemed objectionable to certain MR members.
So would anyone who loves the user experience of an iPad mini more than any other smaller tablet they try.
Anyone who's dependent on particular Apple software and can't find its correlate on Google Play might also have to choose Apple. It's about function, not ideology or pricing models.
If the screen and software library prove good enough, I might consider a Mini in a year or two when the price comes down. But I'd prefer an iPad 3 or 4 at a reasonable price
once they're obsolete.
The point is to be able to compose music on vacation or on a train, not show off the latest and best iteration of a common consumer device.