What is the difference between a iPad and tablet.?

[twerppoet]

I loved my Palm Pilots. I owned serveral.

My first iOS device was an iPod Touch. I didn't get it because it was a music player. I got it because it was the most powerful PDA on the market. It made the Palm Pilots look like cheap toys. All I wanted from the iPod Touch was cellular access (because we didn't have decent AT&T coverage where I lived the iPhone was a non-starter).

Then the iPad came out and the iPod Touch was soon lost in a pile of old electronics.

 

[Thomas1977]

You guys are really cool I never had a tablet till my one and only iPad mini 2.

 

[giradman]

You guys are really cool I never had a tablet till my one and only iPad mini 2.

Thomas - my first real 'electronic' introduction was in the late 1970s - the game of Pong, so simplistic in retrospect but at the time a joy to play and compete w/ my son or a friend - SO much history in this industry. Dave

 

[Thomas1977]

I remember pong. I had a pong machine and a atari 2600 and the first nintendo the nes. I also had a gameboy a nintendo DSi XL and a nintendo DS.

 

[Thomas1977]

sorry to be posting so many times in a row but I wonder how many people remember this.???

 

[Thomas1977]

@Nearbuds that's a good point.

 

[giradman]

The biggest difference between the iPad and Android tablets is the operating system since the iPad runs on iOS while Android tablets run on Google's Android; both starting on smartphones and are now being used in tablets.

Hi Nearbuds - welcome to the forum! But most of us know that there are different operating systems on the iPad vs. Android devices - really not a Homer Simpson experience here -

What would be more useful as a contribution is: 1) What are the features of iOS vs. Android that might favor using one OS over the other; and 2) What are the hardware differences between devices using these operating systems that make one superior to the other? Would be much more helpful w/ some specific useful comments, just saying - Dave
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[scifan57]

The biggest difference between the iPad and Android tablets is the operating system since the iPad runs on iOS while Android tablets run on Google's Android; both starting on smartphones and are now being used in tablets.

The quality of construction and the availability and reliability of features can be more important than which operating system is on a particular tablet model. There's also the integration of the operating system with the operating system on your other devices and how well it works. It can be a better experience if your phone and tablet are running the same operating system.

 

[Thomas1977]

I think the same can be said if you have a computer like I do.