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Message: <blockquote data-quote="IronWolf" data-source="post: 5850394" data-attributes="member: 21076">Marketing certainly is at play. Marketing is not necessarily evil, though I can certainly see how some might feel bombarded by Apple ads. I don't watch much TV, so I can't even remember the last time I saw an Apple commercial.In my opinion the Android devices will need to exceed iPad specs, not just match them at this point. I would have taken matched when the iPad first came out, not sure a matched set of hardware specs would convince me to switch at this point in and of itself.How is support for that software over the lifetime of the device? I am more familiar with some of the phones than tablets, but I sort of was burnt by buying a new phone and then having it become ineligible for updates 10 months or so into its useful life. That is an issue. Is an Android tablet purchased a year and a half ago still getting current software updates?Yep - this is why I mentioned earlier, folks are less concerned with hardware specs. It is the ecosystem Apple brings to the table. It only takes an app or two to not exist on a platform to make people wonder why they paid X amount of dollars for their device when they could have bought the platform that runs the stuff they want to run. The Apple ecosystem is giving them a huge advantage and even entrenching them further as the leader.For example, when I bought my tablet a year ago I was still on the fence - iPad or Android tablet. I chose iPad after looking at my available options. Now, to get me to to switch to an Android tablet would be much harder. I have apps on my iPad that I use and don't want to lose access to by switching tablet platforms.Battery life is important. Beyond that a lot of these simply aren't issues to the typical user. Issues for some? Yes - but I don't think they are for your typical user. I can attach a keyboard to my iPad if I want. Expandable memory would be nice, but I really haven't had the need to do so on my iPad, especially with cloud services for file storage. Full control simply isn't that important to people. It is the classic Linux versus Windows argument. A group of people do care about full control, but I don't think the majority do. Their tablet works, they already feel like they have full control because it does what they want, they don't want to dig deeper.USB ports were my initial contention with the iPad when it was released. You would frequently hear me complain about them not being included. Time went by, nothing really stepped up and I bought the iPad. I haven't missed USB ports one bit. It just hasn't been an issue in the slightest.I do think all the items you have listed could be important for some people in which case an Android device could be better. But I don't think these things matter to a lot of the tablet purchasers.</blockquote>

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