Thread: iPad mini 2 or keep the Asus?
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Old 01-14-2015, 03:34 PM   #13
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Originally Posted by burnafterreading View Post
well, you only have one day left to decide whether to keep or return the Asus. is it running Lollipop (5.x) yet or still on 4.4.x? there's ways of rooting it, installing 5.x, etc. some people have deleted the extra junk software and are seeing better performance as well.

here's one problem with Android - it's free. this means that ANY hardware manufacturer can toss android onto their device, so having a bad experience with an android tablet has little to do with Android itself, but possibly the hardware. iOS on the other hand is ONLY done by Apple on devices made by Apple, so it's consistent and tighter spec'd (and more $$$).

there's really only one iOS experience - an Apple product.
there's a lot of different Android experiences - high end devices, mid range, and cheap junk. it's not Android's fault if the hardware is crap.
You make a valid point. My Asus Memo Pad 7 is a cheap tablet, I specifically wanted a cheap one as I only really wanted it to sideload Google apps to my Fire, which I bought for text to speech.

I always thought Samsungs were the high end Android tablets but if I'm paying for one of those I'll buy an iPad, plus I have a 64GB ipad, it's a struggle to find Android tablets over a 32GB and not all apps can be run from an SD card.
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