Its reasoning is pretty weird, though. Google's Pixel Tablet launched back in 2023, and it's been all crickets from the search giant since then on the...
Just because Google has doesn’t mean that Samsung and other Android OEMs have. They’re still pumping them out.
Honestly though? What are the good Android tablets? How do you know?
My wife only uses Android phones, and we went through 2-3 Android tablets. They all crapped out after like a year. Ones we thought were good. She never even considered the iPad, until I bought her one. Now it’s been like four years? It was new when we got it. Fourth-generation Air. Still runs good as new. Sure, it doesn’t run Android apps, you can’t put Nova Prime on it, and if that’s what you’re used to, well, the home screen kind of sucks. It’s good enough to get you into the apps though, which is where the iPad pulls ahead. And you get the benefit of the ‘other’ app ecosystem.
For most people, the base level iPad is good enough. The Air and Mini offer premium upgrades over the base, and personally I think the Pro is overkill, but it’s also the biggest one, and some artists like that expanded canvas.
Sometimes it’s good to use different tech. Android tablets have never been great. iPads have never been less than “good enough.” There may have been a couple Android tablets that were better than the base iPad, but they’d be few and far between and you wouldn’t really know until it had been out a few years.
We’ve been using Samsung tablets in the family for the past 8 years and they are fine. Although it’s better to buy their premium tablets if you plan to use them for ~5 years.
Some key benefits include adfree YouTube, having the same apps/UX on their phones (Samsung A series) and Firefox for Android with the UBO extension.
Yes, I love using Firefox on my Galaxy S10. iOS has uBlock Origin Lite and it’s fine in Safari but there’s just no point in using Firefox on iOS. And that’s sad.
For ad free YouTube it kinda works but I’m sure it’s more reliable on Android.
I used to root, and if you do that you can edit the HOSTS file or have something like AdAway do it for you. Unrooted Android is like iOS: DNS filtering. Though I don’t even do that on my S10, I just use Firefox and uBlock Origin.
I should note, I don’t do tablets. My portable computer is a MacBook Air, and that runs Firefox with uBlock Origin just like Windows does, and Android. Wife doesn’t need all of a laptop, so she’s happy with the iPad. I don’t think I’ll ever get one, but if they made iPhone Mini Pro, I’d consider getting one and then getting an iPad Mini. 4” phone, 8” tablet, 15” laptop, 27” desktop monitor. But for now with a 7” phone I don’t need a tablet.
Just because Google has doesn’t mean that Samsung and other Android OEMs have. They’re still pumping them out.
Honestly though? What are the good Android tablets? How do you know?
My wife only uses Android phones, and we went through 2-3 Android tablets. They all crapped out after like a year. Ones we thought were good. She never even considered the iPad, until I bought her one. Now it’s been like four years? It was new when we got it. Fourth-generation Air. Still runs good as new. Sure, it doesn’t run Android apps, you can’t put Nova Prime on it, and if that’s what you’re used to, well, the home screen kind of sucks. It’s good enough to get you into the apps though, which is where the iPad pulls ahead. And you get the benefit of the ‘other’ app ecosystem.
For most people, the base level iPad is good enough. The Air and Mini offer premium upgrades over the base, and personally I think the Pro is overkill, but it’s also the biggest one, and some artists like that expanded canvas.
Sometimes it’s good to use different tech. Android tablets have never been great. iPads have never been less than “good enough.” There may have been a couple Android tablets that were better than the base iPad, but they’d be few and far between and you wouldn’t really know until it had been out a few years.
We’ve been using Samsung tablets in the family for the past 8 years and they are fine. Although it’s better to buy their premium tablets if you plan to use them for ~5 years.
Some key benefits include adfree YouTube, having the same apps/UX on their phones (Samsung A series) and Firefox for Android with the UBO extension.
Yes, I love using Firefox on my Galaxy S10. iOS has uBlock Origin Lite and it’s fine in Safari but there’s just no point in using Firefox on iOS. And that’s sad.
For ad free YouTube it kinda works but I’m sure it’s more reliable on Android.
I used to root, and if you do that you can edit the HOSTS file or have something like AdAway do it for you. Unrooted Android is like iOS: DNS filtering. Though I don’t even do that on my S10, I just use Firefox and uBlock Origin.
I should note, I don’t do tablets. My portable computer is a MacBook Air, and that runs Firefox with uBlock Origin just like Windows does, and Android. Wife doesn’t need all of a laptop, so she’s happy with the iPad. I don’t think I’ll ever get one, but if they made iPhone Mini Pro, I’d consider getting one and then getting an iPad Mini. 4” phone, 8” tablet, 15” laptop, 27” desktop monitor. But for now with a 7” phone I don’t need a tablet.