As you know i am a huge Apple fan. I didnt buy the IPad last year because i felt it was a huge IPhone which i had already had and gotten tired of. But this year the Ipad 2 changed my mind as i have decided to get a tablet for school. I have looked at the Motorola Xoom and the HP Touchpad and while i was leaning toward the HP i decided to go for the IPad 2. I decided to get the IPad 2 because HP touchpad seems to expensive and i also decided to take the advice of numerous tech bloggers and ask myself what i really wanted and what i want is Apps. The HP tablet impresses me because it has tabs for a very good internet multitasking experience and it has Palm's "card" interface first seen on the palm pre. However, i realized that it was too expensive at the estimated $699 price and that it didnt have any of the impressive apps on the iphone and it never will. The Xoom is also impressive but i feel android does not handle any good complicated apps and that it is really blocky and laggy. Yeah the first few days were fine on each of my android phones but after that i have to press hard just to get a reaction. As i said i want a tablet for school and the Apple IPad keyboards are the best. Every time i touch an Apple touchscreen device is like im touching water, It is so smooth and perfect. It responds great to a light touch so i feel like im touching air. The fact is that at just $499 the IPad 2 is awesome and with 65,000 apps is the best tablet in the market. However, there are always a few hater who just want to love the underdog and hate the big sneaky oppressor. In this case the underdog is Android. While that's all well and good in movies in real life you want the best possible product. Android does not work. It is slow and it cannot handle complicated games and apps. The flash in the Xoom that is supposed to be available is not available yet which is a big disappointment and is probably why it's still gathering dust in Bestbuy. The Xoom gives about 10 hours just as the IPad but once the infamous Flash comes aboard those 10 hours will decrease rapidly and then everyone will find out why Steve Jobs hates Flash. Yeah the ipad may not have flash but there's always apps that can fix that and other things that android does not have that make it the best tablet. Everyone complaints about what it doesn't have but what it does have is irreplaceable: a simple interface that is smooth like water, responsive, fast, long batter life, great apps and just the magical way it feels every time you touch it. Its like Disneyland and android is like six flags. So this coming Wednesday I'm getting my white 16Gb IPad and God bless America.
