I was suffering from using Android phone and tablet, after installing many apps and require synchronization of data in real time, the android system always lag/slow down. Sometimes it gets hanged need to force reboot/reset. I started using iPad mini 3 weeks ago and my experience is superb, no complaint at all, very fast, problems in android do not occur in iOS, iOS apps are of good quality, many are free too. I would like to say, iOS is much better than android.
I've always had an iPhone when it comes to smart phones and I've never used an android phone. I do however have a kindle fire that runs on android, but just use if for reading mostly. When I am on it online or using apps it does seem slow. I'm just not sure if it's the system or because it's not really meant to do all that.
The problem is one of user interface priority, in iOS UI always has highest priority: if you touch the screen iOS will focus on managing your manipulation of the screen and slow down or stop doing anything else, Android on the other hand will simply multitask more, as a result Andriod will slow down the more tasks you give it to do, while iOS will *appear* responsive because it has slow down or even stop everything other then your interaction with the device. Try this experiment: open safari and load up a complex web page (like facebook), before it finishes loading Facebook put your finger on the screen and move it around (do not remove your finger from the screen do not stop moving it), stop moving it around when it finishes loading Facebook. Do the same thing on your android device (opening what ever internet navigator you use), how long does it take either one to load up said web page? I bet the android device will be faster.
Depends what you use it for. Apple may have good screens, but android apps work just as well. Although apple may have the best screens, i will still go with android.
I've look into it a little more, the UI answer was given out way back in 2011 and since then there been more bitching are arguing over it from fanboys and the likes. There was always the Jave verse C code issue, Andriod has a much larger app market but sacrifices performance by having to translate java code, but that problem is only for Java apps, the UI argument just seem like a perfect universal answer. But apparently someone actually made a benchmark for this: http://www.dailytech.com/Android Flagships Are Twice as Slow at Touch as iPhone 5/article33428.htm
I install a Task Killer Pro, set it to kill backgroud tasks every 1 second, now my ACER TABLET is running very fast. Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
Actually, with Android, you don't want to kill tasks in the background very often. Android is not like windows, where you need to have a certain amount of "free unallocated" ram, and in a lot of cases, task killers just slow things down by killing a task, which the OS then re-starts, which then gets killed, and restarted, etc
Still YES, iOS apps are cheaper than Google Play Store, I have kids aged 9-11 years, they want educational apps, iOS got more choices and the prices are cheaper.
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