I'm in Europe, and also believe that iPads are unbeatable when talking about price - in both nominal and price/value ratio sense.
I have been an iPad user for over a decade. 2 years ago I was shopping for a new tablet. I went to a local electronics shop trying some of them out: the affordable (~300 EUR for me) Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung ones all stuttered even in their own setting menu. The high end Samsungs were nice - starting at 600EUR.
Settled for a base iPad for 300 EUR. I hate Apple, but iPads are literally cheap, have good performance, and offer more than magnified phone applications, even with the crappy iOS.
> I'm in Europe, and also believe that iPads are unbeatable when talking about price - in both nominal and price/value ratio sense
The problem with iPad is that if you want a larger screen you have to get the very expensive iPad Pro. For large screen sizes, the Android ecosystem is much better value.
- Android tablets have the Opera browser which has text reflow functionality which works much much better than anything else. This is a huge deal for me.
- I can access the file system and do whatever I want with it.
- I still like notifications more in Android vs iPadOS.
If it were not for these things, I would buy an iPad in a heartbeat.
I have been an iPad user for over a decade. 2 years ago I was shopping for a new tablet. I went to a local electronics shop trying some of them out: the affordable (~300 EUR for me) Lenovo, Huawei and Samsung ones all stuttered even in their own setting menu. The high end Samsungs were nice - starting at 600EUR.
Settled for a base iPad for 300 EUR. I hate Apple, but iPads are literally cheap, have good performance, and offer more than magnified phone applications, even with the crappy iOS.