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Originally Posted by WillysJeepMan
My comfort level is high for the iOS app store... not so high for the Android markets.
And I've yet to encounter an Android tablet of comparable size and weight that offers the same battery life as an iPad.
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Having been burned by one app in the IOS store, and never in the Android market, I'm not in the same boat. In my case, the developer sold his software to another company, which promptly renamed the product and had the original deleted from the Apple market. I can, of course, buy the same app again with its new name and continue to get bug fixes...
And since I own both an iPhone and an iPad, I've had the pleasant experience of needing to buy two copies of the same app, one "HD" for the iPad, even though my iPhone has almost the same resolution. The iPhone apps look very grainy on my iPad, and of course there's no going the other way (can't run an iPad app on the iPhone.) Somehow, Android apps seem to work and look just fine across multiple resolutions without having to buy additional copies of the same app...
The Nexus 10 compares very favorably with the iPad. Lighter, faster, with more resolution, and just 10% less battery life (10 hours vs 9).
But of course, we've gotten far afield from the original Fire HD+ vs iPad. Since the Fire HD+ has a lot of the same problems as the Apple market (you're just tied to Amazon instead of Apple), I'm not sure one can make a super-strong argument either way. Of course, root that Fire and it inherits most of Android's positives, with the only negative being a potential loss of security. But if you're a Prime customer, then access to the perks of Amazon make the Fire HD+ an almost no-brainer.