How to pick the perfect tablet
Which platform?
The first question is whether you want an iPad or something else. The iPad is the natural choice if you already have other Apple hardware: most iOS apps can be shared across an iPhone and an iPad, and when the tablet’s connected to your phone it can even receive calls and send text messages. For Mac users, the iPad can serve as a second display, or work with a stylus to draw in Mac apps.
Even if you’re not an Apple fan, there are good reasons to pick the iPad. It has the biggest range of software and accessories, and it comes with two superb creative apps that Android can’t match, namely GarageBand and iMovie. It also has a more mature multitasking system, so it may be better suited as a laptop replacement.
Yet Android has benefits of its own. There’s a far wider range of tablets to choose from, starting at much lower prices. Android tablets also often have slots for microSD media, so you can expand your storage if you need to, which isn’t the case with an iPad.
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