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Originally Posted by Prestidigitweeze
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.
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I don't think many would question the sanity of someone who paid a premium price for lesser specs if the aim was to use software not available on another platform. In your case, the preference for iOS appears to be logical based on what you are saying here.
But for a vast majority of tablet users, their needs are pretty basic -- ie, ebooks, movies, music, Netflix, games, email, facebook, web surfing, etc -- and can be met equally well by either the iOS or Android platform. For these people, choosing the iPad Mini might raise questions as to their sanity. Do they do it just for the supposed prestige of flashing an Apple product? If so, they also risk looking like a total tech ignoramus or newb ... slaves to fashion.
As for functions/features that are superior on one platform, it should be mentioned that third-party reading apps are much much better on android than on iOS. So a serious reader might be better off going with android for that very reason alone.
On many android tablets, you can also get GPS functionality without wi-fi or 3G. You can't get that with iOS, afaik.
--Pat