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Originally Posted by grndslm
...Samsung Note 8.0, however. And I do think it'd be worth his time to try one out....
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Won't happen.
I barely have touched the last 6 or 8 Android tablets I had bought.
Granted, most have been Kindle Fire HD and similar "stripped down" Android units.
But same was true for Nexus 7 (2013) or my iPad mini.
I did like the touch and feel of iPad mini, whereas I'm not a fan of the bigger iPads. I prefer the design of iPad 1 very much over iPads 2 to 4.
In the very beginning, maybe May 2010 to end of 2011, I very much enjoyed playing around with every new tablet. At some stage, I had about 11.000 apps in iTunes.
But after some time, it simply became repetitive. It's not much fun to me anymore, to toy around with a new tablet. After owning more than 40 of these, there's simply not much new to discover.
And I found, that I barely use 95% of my apps anyway.
And I found the update processes n most tablets bothersome. Waiting for Android 4.4 on some units, when Google had introduced it for 2 months already.
So, when buying Android, I mainly will go for an original one from Google directly.
As for Samsung specifically:
I did like the Note 1.
I checked out Notes 2 and 3, but didn't like their form factor.
And most of the time, each device from Samsung has some minor detail that bothers me. They use too much plastic and their devices to me never look the same league as Apple for example.
But for now I don't bother about Android anyway.
It did have some advantages over iOS for me. But those advantages are gone, Windows 8 has way more to offer in that area.
Most likely, at least for 2014, I'll keep checking out iOS. I don't like the looks of iOS7, but at some stage I'll probably buy another iPad again. I simply have too much apps for iOS, to forget about it forever.
I'll stick to my NVIDIA Shield, so most of my gaming takes place on Android.
But my main focus for now definitely is on Windows 8.
The Microsoft market still is rather limited. But on the desktop I can solve whatever problem occurs. It might be a bit less shiny and polished, but it's way more productive for me. And the possibilities of toying around are sheer endless...