An iPad is not a camera which only has auto. Lets look at tablets as cars, android is a kit car, you can make it do you what you want and it will be unique, but it has its own problems. Only you can make it work, not everything works on every kit car.
An ipad is a car from a car showroom, it works, does everything it is designed to. I can buy things and they just work
I think you misunderstood my analogy with the camera.....
But as for the car analogy, I own a kitcar and everything works just fine. I service it myself, parts are easy to get and if I need to alter anything, I can without much hassle. And ultimately if I come across a Porsche 911 turbo, my little car (worth just 10% of it), will happily leave the owner wondering where i've gone through cloud of dust and tyre smoke.
The iPad is more like an expensive Mercedes, you pay a lot for it and just keeps on costing more and more because you have no choice but to go back to the dealer for parts and servicing, a lot of the parts probably have serial numbers tied to the ECU to prevent the use of after market parts and then after a few years it starts to fall apart.
Android is somewhere between the two, it has some of the bad elements of Apple products, but at the same time you can bypass this stuff and do your own thing.
It's all horses for courses, but I don't like anything that controls what I can do, how and then dictates the terms/costs.
As an example, Adobe pulled flash support for Android, but I was able to sideload a version i'd downloaded outside the app store. But if Apple decide they don't want you to do something, there's just nothing you can do and I would personally become quite angry at spending £££ on something that I ultimately had little or no control over.
