[Nexus 7 General] angermeans:
I have to say I completely agree. I own the retina display iPad and now the Nexus 7 and they both have a giant place in my day to day use, but the Nexus 7, although by far the best android tablet on the market is still way behind the iPad in my opinion. Just the screen alone on the iPad wins that battle in my mind. Then you factor the much better app selection, better processor (im sorry but the A5X runs circles around the tegra 3), a million times better build quality (but hey its a 200 tablet we are talking about and I think my nexus 7 is better built than my Xoom or Transformer Prime. Also I've never been a fan of ASUS' hardware it just feels cheap and performs that way. Still I feel much better about paying 200 for my nexus 7 then the money I spent on my prime or especially Xoom as that was a giant waste of cash), and performance (project butter is the best and most worth while feature the android team has ever built for android and it makes it run great and there is a huge difference between ICS and Jelly Bean on my Galaxy Nexus and Nexus 7, but it still runs no where neat what iOS does on my retina iPad or iPhone 4s).

I don't understand why we have to have a killer of anything to have a good product. Google is expected to sell around 7 million Nexus 7's by the holiday season and that will far surpass any android tablet to date and this is the first android tablet I can honestly suggest to someone, but in that same amount of time Apple is expected to sell over 30 million iPads and thats not even putting into consideration we might see a 7" (or so) iPad in the next couple months which will sell better then the Nexus you can bet. This is a great tablet and Google really hit it on the head with this device, but ,make no mistake they went after the Fire not the iPad for a reason and that is they simply cannot complete with the iPad not now and not for a long time to come and that simply is out of their hands. Their goal was simple to take the android tablet destiny into their own hands because much like android phones OEMs are running the OS into the ground by completely ignoring their customers and timely updates to the newer versions of android. Not to mention the countless bugs on skinned devices. Google sees it and is making the necessarysteps to keep android fresh and relevant or they will simply lose control of android.

The Nexus 7 has a lot going for it. The form factor is great especially for reading (something the iPad does but not well in my opinion. I mean the screen is second to none and android OEMS will probably never catch up to the retina ipad , much like they haven't with the iPhone 4 and 4s, but the ipad is just too big to comfortably read for long amounts of time). Two, and most importantly is the price. This is where the Nexus will survive in an all iPad world. The hardware is severely behind apples but the price and what you get for that price is extremely good. I am surprised every time I pick it up that it is a 200 dollar tablet as it feels much more. What android needs is applications and this is where the iPad succeeds. Not only with 3rd party apps but in the apps they control. The iPad has a huge Eco system of great 1st and 3rd party apps just look at iphoto (there is no app that great on android and probably wont ever be), iTunes U (an excellent and very useful collection of not only videos of college courses, but also the books in PDF, assignments' tests etc making the possibility of taking real courses like app development from excellent schools like Stanford. This is something special and you won't find anytng similar on android ever), music app (let's face it we all know that it is much better than any android msic application), iwork apps like pages, numbers, and keynote (hands down the best doc apps on any platform and can do a lot that a laptop or desktop can do), and most importantly the iTunes Eco system with the app store, iBooks, iTunes, etc. Google Play is attempting to compete but will never be what apple has built.