Ahh, you're both right, have some "uppers." I have both unnecessary and totally necessary tablets. Guess which brand/OS? Okay, we all had a jolly good laugh. Seriously, I got my new tablet and phone last summer, and they are both working out great. Quick software/security updates, good apps, decent mobile plan and all that. The older tablet is still okay for a few things, even though the age is showing in the small memory and slow CPU, but like all other third-party Android devices; it never gets updates, even when it was new it got so few it left me wondering why bother if the vendor doesn't?
I know what I need these all for; phone (secure mobile data and apps, easy to pack away), old tablet with weird keyboard stand (pr0n, backup Kodi remote), new tablet w/flappy keyboard add-on (secure mobile data and apps in larger format, like F1 2016, try that using the pro controls on a phone, I know, it sucks, so big games yes, streams when the kid takes over the big screen, Amazon ordering), desktop (media hub, big boy browsing, ssh, brew, processing media), Mint laptop (ssh, dev, Kodi, browsing, Amazon, but not as easy as the tablet, media duties, writing OSes to devices). The tablets are okay to browse the web with, but they always fall down and stub their toe when you try and download a simple file, or do media not already in their codecs.
My tablet should last 5 years or more, same with the phone, the laptop should do 10 and the desktop better do a dozen or more. Unless I add other hu-mans, I don't need more devices yet! And we are not typical muggle-users, I would wager the rest of you lot have a few devices lying about, and I'm not even counting embeded devices that do anything from a simple media player to a decent low-end server.
The problem with the tablet market is that all the money goes into sales and marketing and nary a cent for R&D. Let's see some innovations in the space and less following Apple. In Every. Single. Way. From the iconic slidey panels, down to the home and other button placements and even the materials and chassis shape. Can someone, anyone, PLEASE do something different than Apple? I have all their products. I get them from them. I don't buy knock-off Samesong 3rd-party Androids; they are just a crap Apple knock-off without much difference, other than a huge lack of security updates when they reach 1.5 years of "age." Marketing people have no place making decisions about technical products. They all suck at it. Look at GoPro. Too much marketing ruined a fairly good product.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
