The video is a time-waster, without offering any useful information.
It then takes a bunch of scrolling just to get to the first panel with the basic details. Of course, they're quite limited, and interspersed within a bunch of irrelevant marketing nonsense.
Then even more scrolling is required to get further details.
The "Everything you care about ...", "Endless entertainment ...", etc. panels are huge space-wasters, without any useful information. I personally find them very distracting, too, due to how the page and background move relative to one another. They require more scrolling to get past.
It takes yet more scrolling to get to the "Tech Specs" link. Of course, it's broken for middle-clicks, so you're forced to open the specs inline. The font is unnecessarily huge, and there's excessive whitespace, resulting in even more scrolling just to view the specs. I don't even see any way to close the tech specs unless you scroll all the way to the bottom of them, and click the "close Tech Specs" link.
Finally, the useful pricing information is way at the bottom of the page, assuming the potential customer has even bothered to scroll this far down.
The useful information could have easily fit within one page that didn't require any scrolling whatsoever, without all of the marketing nonsense, and without the useless space-wasting imagery. I would be very pleased if I never had to encounter a page like that one ever again.
When I, and probably much of this site was that age I was dicking around with Linux distros and trying to get nvidia binary drivers to work so I could play quake 3. Then there was that whole thing when I discovered shell scripts and python. There are cs learning apps for android, but nothing like opening up a bash shell in linux and getting the python interpreter and command prompt. Hopefully that kid has access to a real computer, and a bloody password on his account.
But the inexplicable slowness as the device ages and memory use grows is a crappy reason to have to upgrade.
It's funny how quickly a market evolves and competition ratchets up. I can buy for $200 a device that gives me capabilities that cost an order of magnitude more 10 years ago, but I also still expect the cheaper device to have robust and long term performance capabilities.
I'll upgrade for "more, better features" but upgrading cause the old one kicked the bucket after a year is asking too much.
And given the market dynamics, even for $200, I'm not being unreasonable! Gotta love capitalism.
I do not own any Nexus 7 devices but I do recall reading about issues related to degraded flash performance over time for the first generation devices.
I am wondering though how do you know for certain that the newer model device have this resolved ?
Android 4.3 now runs fstrim daily to alleviate this issue.
That said, iOS is still remarkably easier to use than android, especially for kids. And the nexus 7 hardware has a few problems, namely battery life and the odd shape.
(Did I do it right? We're switching literal/figurative, right?)
In fact, I bought my N72013 on the 31st of July and have been playing with it for a week. WTF Google?
