A few people have said the nexus isn't competing with the iPad but really? not competing with it at all? I know it's much cheaper and it's a little smaller but hey, it's a tablet and it can do pretty much everything the iPad can do, but for less money. Isn't that kinda the definition of competition?
Not really. It's the same with PCs, phones, and various other things. While they all do generally the same stuff, in practice there are people who just want a basic model and aren't willing to pay much for it, and there are people who want the best money can buy and are willing to pay out much more. So while they're still both PCs, a £300 one from PC World isn't really competing with a £3000 gaming rig. They can mostly do the same stuff, but the more expensive one will do some things a lot better. Similarly, things like the iPad and Samsung Galaxy have much more processing power, higher resolution screens, and so on, than a £100 tablet. Sure, it's still a tablet and can do most of the same things, but it won't always do them as quickly or look as good when it does.
The big difference between phones and tablets is that a cheap phone is still a phone, and the person buying it probably doesn't care that it's not as good at playing games and such. But a tablet is just a tablet and doesn't have any base function, so if it's not much good at doing tablety things, there's just not much point in buying one at all. That's part of the reason the iPad is popular in the first place. It was nowhere near the first tablet to exist, but it came out at about the time when you could finally fit enough processing power and a decent screen into a tablet-sized device. Until now, it was still expensive to do so so the cheaper tablets tended to be rather on the crap side, but we may just about be reaching the point where you can make a decent tablet that can't match the more expensive ones for power but could still be worth having as a tablet. They're not trying to take market share from the iPad, they're hoping to get a share in a newly open market that's only just come into existence.
Would it have killed them to put an SD card slot on it? 8-16GB is a little limiting. It would cost practically nothing. I'm guessing they are doing this because they want people to use the Google Play Store for content rather than loading up a bunch of stuff.
I dunno, for some reason a lot of manufacturers just seem to hate SD cards these days. It's weird. 16GB was barely enough a decade or so ago in my old mp3 player, so I really don't understand how anyone thinks 8GB is enough for a tablet now.
