{"id":255696,"date":"2026-05-26T07:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/how-a-dead-galaxy-tablet-forced-this-android-user-to-switch-to-ipad\/"},"modified":"2026-05-26T07:45:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-26T11:45:19","slug":"how-a-dead-galaxy-tablet-forced-this-android-user-to-switch-to-ipad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/26\/how-a-dead-galaxy-tablet-forced-this-android-user-to-switch-to-ipad\/","title":{"rendered":"How a dead Galaxy tablet forced this Android user to switch to iPad"},"content":{"rendered":"

How a dead Galaxy tablet forced this Android user to switch to iPad<\/a><\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.macworld.com\/article\/3147119\/how-a-dead-galaxy-tablet-forced-this-android-user-to-switch-to-ipad.html<\/a><\/p>\n

Publish Date: 2026-05-26 07:30:00<\/a><\/p>\n

Source Domain: www.macworld.com<\/a><\/p>\n

You\u2019ve probably heard that the iPad dominates the tablet market, with some stats putting its share at about 50 percent worldwide, a huge number. Why is that? It could be because iPads are well-made, or that iPadOS benefits from being derived from iOS. It could be how well Apple\u2019s ecosystem works. Those are all reasons, but there\u2019s another major reason: Android tablets suck.<\/p>\n

Don\u2019t take the word of this devoted Apple user, though. Take the word of my colleague, Hans-Christian Dirscherl, the managing editor of PCWelt in Germany. Hans recently wrote (in German; English translation available at Tech Advisor) about an experience years ago with an Android-based Samsung Galaxy Tab \u00a010.1 (GT-P7500) that forced him to become a devoted iPad user.<\/p>\n

In 2011, Dirscherl bought the Galaxy Tab and was \u201cimpressed\u201d enough to take it with him when out and about. But, being a tech-savvy kind of guy, Dirscherl wondered why Android updates weren\u2019t regularly arriving on his tablet. Turns out it wasn\u2019t a problem with the device, but rather that the Android 3.1 OS that was on the tablet received only one minor update during his time with it. That\u2019s all, just one.<\/p>\n

If you don\u2019t remember, Android Honeycomb was a big deal for Android tablets back in 2011, which were only just beginning to compete with Apple\u2019s popular iPad. Version 3.1 smoothed a lot of Honeycomb\u2019s rougher edges and made it stable for tablets. But while the first round of Honeycomb tablets, including the Galaxy Tab 10.1, were promised an upgrade path to Android Ice Cream Sandwich, they didn\u2019t begin arriving until August 2012. So it was a long wait.<\/p>\n

That was a \u201cdisappointment,\u201d Dirscherl says, but it gets way worse. Not long after the one-year warranty expired, the Galaxy Tab stopped working. He tried charging it. Nope. He let it sit for a while and then tried turning it on. Nothing. He attempted a hard reset\/reset. \u201cKeine weiteren,\u201d Dirscherl concluded that his Galaxy…<\/p>\n

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