Nexus 9 vs. iPad: Why should we choose an Android tablet?

Apple's latest iPad Air2 has once again set a new benchmark for the tablet computer industry. Before it, Google also released the new generation of its "own son" tablet Nexus 9, setting a new standard for tablets in the Android camp.

There is no doubt that considering various comprehensive factors, iPad is a tablet computer product recognized and accepted by the vast majority of people. Since its launch, Google Nexus 9 has been compared with iPad Air 2 by various people in and outside the industry. If we put aside iPad, why should we choose an Android tablet?

To be fair, if you are a long-term user of a Windows PC, the Android system may be more in line with your usage habits. The iPad with iOS system is designed to use the Internet, cloud services and various apps to simplify the system's operating logic, so that ordinary users cannot directly call the file management program to view the files stored in the iPad. But in this regard, the Android system is much more open. You can use the file management application to perform targeted copy and paste of files or directly process compressed files like using a PC. The installation of third-party apps does not have the slightly cumbersome mechanism of the iOS system, and most of the functions of the iOS device after "jailbreaking" can be realized without ROOT.

On the other hand, smartphones are getting bigger and bigger. For general users, large-screen smartphones have already achieved some of the same benefits as tablet devices. However, what smartphones cannot replace is the audio and video experience brought by tablets with larger screens.

Although the iPad has always provided an excellent online streaming video experience, if you like to download high-definition videos to watch locally, Android tablets are obviously more suitable for you.

Although the new Nexus 9 has bid farewell to the widescreen design that is more suitable for watching videos and adopts the same 4:3 ratio display as the iPad, the Android platform has a full range of third-party video players with better functions and the feature of "copy and play" for local videos from a PC or other devices, which the iPad does not have.

Recently, when foreign media interviewed the industrial design director of Google Nexus 9, the relevant person said that they had never thought about competing with iPad when the product was first launched. But today, with the advent of Android 5.0, Android has completely caught up with iOS in basic experience aspects such as usage stability and operation smoothness. Facing user groups with different usage needs, Android tablets represented by Nexus 9 also have the strength to become a strong competitor to Apple iPad.

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