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I own an Asus TS300 tablet, and one thing comes to my mind, Android is mediocre, I've tried the iPad and the Surface and their quality is 10 times better, so I

I own an Asus TS300 tablet, and one thing comes to my mind, Android is mediocre, I've tried the iPad and the Surface and their quality is 10 times better, so I presume this numbers are due the cheap $59 tablets that have become popular, but just for the price.

ZeroGravitas 13y ago
The article claims the average selling price of non-iPad tablets (which must be 99% Android) increased by 17%, while the iPad mini pulled the iPad ASP down by the same amount, so your theory is at odds with the facts.
- clarky07 13y ago
  You have to know the real numbers to make that determination. Increased 17% from 100 is 117. iPad decreasing from 550 to 450 (pulled out of my ...) would mean the parent is still right.
  - ZeroGravitas 13y ago
    That's not how averages work. More $59 tablets will only increase the ASP if it's below $59.
- adrianlmm 13y ago
  the iPad mini it may be mini, but is still expensive, and from my own empirical experience, 9 out of 10 tablets I see in the user hands are cheap $59 devices.
psbp 13y ago
I enjoy using my Nexus 7 over my iPad mini and 3rd generation iPad. The apps aren't at parity, but I think the OS is a lot more fluid and easy to navigate.
- halostatue 13y ago
  My Nexus 7 is sitting in its dock, as it has been for the last six weeks except for maybe a few minutes a week. I bought one of the original 16GB Nexus 7s; the battery life sucks; the responsiveness made my iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 look good. I commonly tell those who ask that the Nexus 7 is one of the worst technology purchases I’ve made in the last ten years (the worst before that would have been the Compaq iPaq in 2001; it didn’t even run Linux very well, although that ran better than WinCE at the time). I use my iPhone in preference to the Nexus 7 for just about everything. I bought a Kobo mini for $50 because the Nexus 7 wasn’t even a good epub reader, and that’s having tried four or five different ebook readers on the Nexus 7. This is anecdotal, but I am not sure whether I’ll ever buy another Android product—regardless of manufacturer—and I say that despite feeling the need to stay on top of available technology from a friend/family recommendation perspective. (That, and I do like gadgets, but I'm much less willing to put up with crap these days.)
  - psbp 13y ago
    I don't have the original, it's the 2013. I've heard 4.3 fixes the lag issues with the original. Battery life lasts more than a day for me, and it only has noticeable responsiveness problems when I quickly scroll down web pages.
    - halostatue 13y ago
      My Nexus is horribly laggy on a lot of things (and if I ever have more than one tab open in Chrome, the tablet is damned near unusable), even with 4.3; the battery life for me is measured in hours. For me, it’s a little worse because the software is still so far behind in terms of availability and usability—there’s so very little that the Nexus does better than my iPhone 4 that I don’t want to use it.
      - psbp 13y ago
        You might have a bad unit. Mine is just iteration 2 and I have none of these problems. It's pretty quick.

ZeroGravitas 13y ago

The article claims the average selling price of non-iPad tablets (which must be 99% Android) increased by 17%, while the iPad mini pulled the iPad ASP down by the same amount, so your theory is at odds with the facts.

clarky07 13y ago
You have to know the real numbers to make that determination. Increased 17% from 100 is 117. iPad decreasing from 550 to 450 (pulled out of my ...) would mean the parent is still right.
- ZeroGravitas 13y ago
  That's not how averages work. More $59 tablets will only increase the ASP if it's below $59.
adrianlmm 13y ago
the iPad mini it may be mini, but is still expensive, and from my own empirical experience, 9 out of 10 tablets I see in the user hands are cheap $59 devices.

psbp 13y ago

I enjoy using my Nexus 7 over my iPad mini and 3rd generation iPad. The apps aren't at parity, but I think the OS is a lot more fluid and easy to navigate.

halostatue 13y ago
My Nexus 7 is sitting in its dock, as it has been for the last six weeks except for maybe a few minutes a week. I bought one of the original 16GB Nexus 7s; the battery life sucks; the responsiveness made my iPhone 3GS running iOS 5 look good. I commonly tell those who ask that the Nexus 7 is one of the worst technology purchases I’ve made in the last ten years (the worst before that would have been the Compaq iPaq in 2001; it didn’t even run Linux very well, although that ran better than WinCE at the time). I use my iPhone in preference to the Nexus 7 for just about everything. I bought a Kobo mini for $50 because the Nexus 7 wasn’t even a good epub reader, and that’s having tried four or five different ebook readers on the Nexus 7. This is anecdotal, but I am not sure whether I’ll ever buy another Android product—regardless of manufacturer—and I say that despite feeling the need to stay on top of available technology from a friend/family recommendation perspective. (That, and I do like gadgets, but I'm much less willing to put up with crap these days.)
- psbp 13y ago
  I don't have the original, it's the 2013. I've heard 4.3 fixes the lag issues with the original. Battery life lasts more than a day for me, and it only has noticeable responsiveness problems when I quickly scroll down web pages.
  - halostatue 13y ago
    My Nexus is horribly laggy on a lot of things (and if I ever have more than one tab open in Chrome, the tablet is damned near unusable), even with 4.3; the battery life for me is measured in hours. For me, it’s a little worse because the software is still so far behind in terms of availability and usability—there’s so very little that the Nexus does better than my iPhone 4 that I don’t want to use it.
    - psbp 13y ago
      You might have a bad unit. Mine is just iteration 2 and I have none of these problems. It's pretty quick.