iPad vs ?

[jcummins]

I'd copy the photos off a tablet and onto a laptop/desktop to edit them. No way I'd try and edit almost 20,000 photos on an iPad.

All of those have already been edited, so it would be further photos, and the planned additional slides/photos I will be copying will add up to a fair number.....guessing 1000-2000.

Your comment makes me think....what I do is better PC based than ipad based. I wish I could find someone to fix the power problem, but one guy who does this, guaranteed via phone that it is was the power cord, and China has counterfeited them and you never know what you are truly buying, even if it's got the Samsung label. He said good luck on finding one. I may make another shot in the dark purchase and see if I can help it, perhaps the more expensive direct to Samsung route. Bad battery, I'll let slide. Let an ipad purchase slide until my phone upgrade becomes available in June next year, then consider going all Apple. I handled the iphone 6 plus couple days ago, and liked it. My daughter yesterday kind of hammered me to NOT buy an android tablet, she being solidly in the Apple camp.

I currently have 60gb in USE on the S4 phone. I checked and have about 20-25GB on laptop that I would add to that to get all of my user data off the laptop. So, I'm also in the maximum price on storage of 128gb on an ipad...remember icloud won't work for me, internet usage $$$ issue.

 

[Soundguy]

On top of all your points iOS is easier to develop for. I remember seeing an article about the percentage of apps that are made for iOS and ported to android. While I don't remember the exact percentage it was a staggering amount. That is one of the reasons a lot of the android apps run slower and have more bugs than their iOS versions.

aren't ios and android both essentiall unix based?

 

[Soundguy]

Your correct bus speed isn't involved. But it wasn't the card either since with the micro card in the SD adapter plugged direct to the laptop it transferred at ok speed. So it was the phone or cable. I did let it run for awhile and it was obvious it wasn't the method to use. But you guys are correct a Samsung phone is not even close to an ipad on speed.

Is there a file manager under iOS so you can see the file structure, as with pc?

what are the 2 using as a processor? not everything is equal. for instance, compairing nokia implementation of snapdragon vs surface implementaion of tegra you see differences is speed with bonus going to nokia, till it gets to video stuff and the tegra wins out.

 

[Fordman1981]

aren't ios and android both essentiall unix based?

It's the tools designed for making the apps. Apple has Xcode where android you have to use a generic tool like eclipse.

Android is Linux based which is a freeware clone of Unix.

 

[Soundguy]

unix, linux... it's all 'ix' based...

 

[MikePA]

aren't ios and android both essentiall unix based?

Yes, both are *nix based.

Linux ~ AIX ~ Solaris ~ SUSE ad infinitum

 

[/pine]

unix, linux... it's all 'ix' based...

yes...but FWIW although there are free versions of both...UNIX is proprietary where Linux is open source...
IIRC...iOS is derived from BSD and android was GNU before Google acquired development rights...

 

[Soundguy]

yes...but FWIW although there are free versions of both...UNIX is proprietary where Linux is open source...
IIRC...iOS is derived from BSD and android was GNU before Google acquired development rights...

i said 'based' ie derieved from.

 

[Soundguy]

yes...but FWIW although there are free versions of both...UNIX is proprietary where Linux is open source...
IIRC...iOS is derived from BSD and android was GNU before Google acquired development rights...

i said 'based' ie derieved from.

 

[/pine]

i said 'based' ie derieved from.

there was no argument!
As a note I cited (for what it was worth) is that with proprietary distributions there is no access to the kernel source code...where Google openly releases their source code...