No it's not. There's really not much difference in spec between the two devices other than the status points obtained. And it's about 1/4-1/3 of the cost. Edit

No it's not. There's really not much difference in spec between the two devices other than the status points obtained. And it's about 1/4-1/3 of the cost. Edit - plus my experience: Possibly going aganist the grain here, but I've owned TOO MANY Apple products not to explode here. I'm sitting on a 2011 MacBook Pro with a big dark spot on the screen where it is starting to fail for example. Bring on the ThinkPad X230 that is replacing it next week. Having used iOS extensively and written software for it, I find very few things more objectional, inflexible and tiresome. The OS is totally frustrating and just about everything hangs or crashes randomly (Safari being a fine example of horrible as it won't even render half a PNG image, leaving blank 60% at the bottom). Oh plus deleting every damn email in my exchange box on several occasions. Apple have a policy of silence and mysticism on all issues as well. The build quality of Apple's mobile products is awful. Design over substance, completely irrepairable, poor engineering and materials decisions. Nickel alloys used everywhere resulting in dermatitis, glass on the edges (impact points) and terribly difficult to use connectors (lightning). As for repair, glue and proprietary screws. Enough said. I can still repair a Nokia with a T4 Torx and no heat gun. The app ecosystem is horrible as well, consisting of vast swathes of mainly pay-per-addon traps for children, popularist crap and hyped overpriced junk. Then there's the opaqueness of the devices. For example, it took me 5 fucking hours to get my wife's bookmarks off her iPad resulting in me having to write a script to convert the SQLite database (which was a bastard to get off the thing) into an HTML file so she could import it into Chrome. And why can't I just download an mp3 file onto the device like I can with Android, Windows Phone, Windows, MacOS etc. So no; just experience.