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Re:iPad mini by eropple on Tuesday October 23, 2012 @09:49PM (#4691264)
I've heard this a lot, but I honestly can't think of anything I use on my iPad that isn't built-in. I say more or less the same thing about my Nexus 7, aside from stuff like game emulators which are verboten on iOS (and, truthfully, I don't use them that often).

Care to share?

Re:iPad mini by bbbbbbbbb on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @01:30AM (#4691740)
The main reason I bought an iPad was... the musical apps (and the fact you can read ebooks with the Kindle app). The iPad is a revolution in the musical scene.

Musical apps is something you won't get in the Android Eco-system basically because the OS itself sucks at it(although 4.1 seems to have improved a bit on that side).

With this in mind(musical apps), I will always favor the iPad (mini) over an Android tablet.

Re:iPad mini by eropple on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @03:17AM (#4691953)
That's interesting. I found them largely useless, Lemur and TouchOSC aside (Android has TouchOSC support, though I do keep the iPad around if I want to use Lemur--haven't for a while though), but it's cool to see that they're useful for somebody.
Re:iPad mini by bbbbbbbbb on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @04:18AM (#4692104)
I like Auria, Amplitube,BeatMaker2,iMS20,iSequence,DM1,Animoog,Soundprism and the likes very much. with audiobus on its way, it is going to get even more interesting.

Been using them for lives & recording demos (iPad+MiC+Jam). the iPad never crashes(not like Android that freezes a lot).

Obviously you do no get a full pc stack and the quality is still not there so I resort to the Mac for more functionality/sound treatment but you can enjoy quite very much if you can't afford the thousands that cost Native Instruments softs or real hardware synths/drum machines.

Re:iPad mini by dagw on Wednesday October 24, 2012 @07:46AM (#4692483)
Music apps and children's apps are two big areas where Android is lagging far behind iOS.