Android is still way superior

[Digital Skunk]

I had a Nexus before I, smartly, got rid of it for an iPad.

To say that the Google ecosystem is "arguably better than Apple's" is such a farce.

Read what I said a bit more carefully, the Google ecosystem is arguably better ONLY because it's totally web based and has been since it's inception. It's also platform agnostic.

Apple's is neither platform agnostic nor totally web/cloud based. It does however, reach a lot farther than Google's ever could.

For an example, I can open iWork docs and save them right from the iWork apps on a tablet and a Mac. The Google docs can only be opened in a web browser. Not to mention iWork is a full fledged office suite of apps.

You can't however, get iWork on a PC . . . .yet.

It will depend on the users, hence why it's arguably better.

 

[sentinelsx]

Read what I said a bit more carefully, the Google ecosystem is arguably better ONLY because it's totally web based and has been since it's inception. It's also platform agnostic.

Apple's is neither platform agnostic nor totally web/cloud based. It does however, reach a lot farther than Google's ever could.

For an example, I can open iWork docs and save them right from the iWork apps on a tablet and a Mac. The Google docs can only be opened in a web browser. Not to mention iWork is a full fledged office suite of apps.

You can't however, get iWork on a PC . . . .yet.

It will depend on the users, hence why it's arguably better.

I have seen mobile office suite apps that can sync to google docs (drive).

Good reader on iPhone can also sync stuff to gdrive.

 

[Digital Skunk]

I have seen mobile office suite apps that can sync to google docs (drive).

Good reader on iPhone can also sync stuff to gdrive.

Agreed, but then you'll be out of the ecosystem.

 

[cualexander]

Android may be better in terms of what the different brands offer in hardware but NOTHING beats the apps in iOS.

I have a Nexus 4 and a 7 and in my opinion, the hardware is nothing if the apps are half baked.

Exactly. This is why I returned the Galaxy Note 8 and got an iPad mini. Blown-up phone apps on a tablet are just not that good. Android may have more features in the operating system, but apps are what really matters in the end. If you watch the iPad Mini keynote, they illustrate the difference between the two experiences very well.

 

[sentinelsx]

Agreed, but then you'll be out of the ecosystem.

I don't get this. Aren't you using gdocs? How can you be out of the ecosystem?

 

[Digital Skunk]

I don't get this. Aren't you using gdocs? How can you be out of the ecosystem?

I am splitting hairs there, but you aren't using a Google desktop application.

I just considering all possible retorts to what I totally agree with. Personally, I am never without the web and find myself near PCs, Macs, Android, and iOS devices, so I prefer GDocs to iWork.

Others may see using a 3rd party app as being a big deal though.