Nexus 7 Vs iPad

Nexus 7 Vs iPad

Until very recently, Apple’s iPad hasn’t just dominated the tablet PC market – it has BEEN the tablet PC market almost in its entirety. Since the first iPad was launched in 2010 there have been hundreds of rival products flying out from all corners, though what all have shared in common is the way in which they’ve all spectacularly failed in their attempts to dethrone the market-leader.

Even some of the biggest names in the business like BlackBerry and Hewlett-Packard have contributed some of the most bewildering failures of all.

So, what we have been left with is a market wherein the “iPad-killer” descriptor attached to so many tablet PCs has lost all meaning and become the most boring of inaccurate clichés imaginable. We’ve also been left wondering whether or not we’ll ever see anything that comes out as a close contender at least, if unable to steal any real spotlight from the world’s favorite slate.

It seems however that we’ve just been given our answer and the outlook for Apple at least isn’t as rosy as it once was.

When the $199 Google Nexus 7 hit the market earlier this year, it singlehandedly changed the face of tablet PC devices in terms of high-power at affordable prices. Of course, holding it alongside the new iPad was a bit like holding a calculator alongside a Nintendo Wii – the two are just too different to be compared like for like. However, when it was announced that the Nexus 7 was soon to be joined by the larger Google Nexus 10, we knew that something big was on the horizon and it appears we weren’t wrong.

Officially launched last week, the Google Nexus 10 has already taken the market by storm with the way in which it not only measures up to the iPad, but in some instances betters its rival’s biggest selling points of all. Apple spent hundreds of millions of dollars telling the world how the new iPad’s Retina quality display was the best thing since sliced bread – the Google Nexus 10’s screen is even better. Apple also bangs on about the sleek, slender and portable iPad as an aesthetic treasure to behold – the Google Nexus 10 is both thinner and lighter.

And we all know that power isn’t everything, but early bench tests have pegged the two neck and neck in terms of both processor and graphics performance.

So, at this point something is needed to seal the deal and that something falls right in the lap of the Google Nexus 7 – is costs a good $100 less than the equivalent iPad.

Does this therefore mean that the iPad is doomed and the Nexus 10 will take the crown with ease? No, not for a second. The trouble is, Apple’s fan-base is already so dedicated and devoted that ALL tablets including the Nexus 10 effectively exist in an entirely different product range. Trying to market the Google Nexus 10 to loyal Apple devotees would be a little like trying to sell Wii games to a Sony CEO – fruitless and pointless to say the least.

As such, Google will undoubtedly enjoy massive success with those outside the iOS camp, but the iPad has simply planted its seed far too deeply by this stage to be uprooted by pretty much anything at any price.