LOL at parroting EXACTLY what Tim Cook said today. I mean seriously that is hilarious. Android tablets is just a scaled up phone, are you serious? iOS on the iPad is the EXACT same as iOS on the phone, with a new Mail app.
They parrot, you parrot, I parrot. In the end it's mostly everyone telling the half truths that justify our side of the argument.
iPad apps won't run an an iPhone, so your argument is silly, at best. On the other hand there are no Android Tablet apps in the Market, and darn few else where. While some applications will scale nicely, yes a nicer scaling than iPhone to iPad, they fail to do anything that the phone couldn't. There is more to having a Tablet than blowing up your games and videos. The interface needs to take advantage of the space to make it a real improvement.
[Note: Some apps improve with scale very well, like video, books, and web browsers. Others just give you a bigger list to scroll though, instead of a better way to navigate and enter data.]
An Android Tablet on 2.2 is a compromise. It does somethings better than an iPad, and somethings worse. What it does not do is deliver a full tablet experience.
But this whole argument really isn't about current tablets, is it? Very few people got supper excited trying to decide if they were going to jump the Apple cart and get a Galaxy Tab.
No, this is about Honeycomb, and the fact that a tablet running it promises some serious improvements over the iPad, with far fewer of the drawbacks. Honeycomb isn't a market reality yet, but neither was the iPad when quite a few of us got excited about it, and even pre-ordered them based on hopes and trust.
I don't blame people for getting excited about the upcoming tablets. I'm very interested to see what they bring as well. But seriously, hashing over the old arguments is a complete waste of time, and a distraction from what is important.
Honeycomb tablets are coming. A second generation iPad is (almost) sure to s how up. Android and Apple fans can look forward to a very interesting year in tablets. Tablets have to be the fastest moving market at the moment. Let's all sit back and enjoy what is to come.
If nothing else we can (I hope) come up with some new arguments to parrot back and forth to each other.
