Is the desktop daw heading towards the app market?

[ezelkow1]

The thing is google doesnt build any of those. They contract out to asus, LG, samsung, HTC for all their nexus devices. So if those manufacturers are good enough to build nexus devices then why not look at all their other devices that have come out post-nexus and have better specs (and this is coming from a nexus 5 owner)

IMHO as long as you dont buy some crap no-name chinese brand, I have yet to see a big name manufacturer put out an actual crappy piece of hardware. They are all pretty adequate, and if its an issue with their stock software, then put on your own ROM and be done with it

[planeth]

The thing is google doesnt build any of those. They contract out to asus, LG, samsung, HTC for all their nexus devices.

That's correct, yes. They build it for Google under Google's advice. ... who knows who actually builds the apple devices;). But don't forget that Google builds their OS on top of the nexus devices.

Take the Nexus 9 from HTC for example. It's build by HTC for Google, but there's no other HTC tablet which can hold up with it. Actually, there's no other Android tablet which comes close to the power of the N9 64bit CPU architecture.

Those hyped octa-core tablet look nice on the sheet, but in reality... these are nice (I own one myself) and optically many of them look better than the Nexus series, but from the performance point of view these are far far behind the N9 with its dual core 64bit cpu.

I wouldn't say that the nexus phones are the best Android overall devices, definitely not. But if it comes to the lowest possible latency on Android, they always win.

IMHO as long as you dont buy some crap no-name chinese brand, I have yet to see a big name manufacturer put out an actual crappy piece of hardware. They are all pretty adequate, and if its an issue with their stock software, then put on your own ROM and be done with it

Agree with you. Maybe exactly there's the problem. Apple mobile devices work as you expect them to work, out of the box. Many Android devices need work before they fit the requirements.

[Mivo]

They are all pretty adequate, and if its an issue with their stock software, then put on your own ROM and be done with it

Well, adequate isn't really what I'm looking for when I drop $600+ on a tablet. I want quality when I spend that kind of money. I have never owned, used, or seen a tablet that felt as well-done as the iPad Air 2. I had pre-ordered the Nexus 9 and ended up returning it for the Air 2, because it felt "cheap" to me. The screen also was a let down (I did like the speakers, which were superior). Android still has latency issues, but that's a different topic and just specific to the audio crowd.

That said, I like my Nexus 7 (2013) still, and I use it daily. That device was (and is) amazing value. Just a shame that the Nexus 9 didn't continue that trend, IMO.