
Android also includes support for multiple user logins, so you can share your tablet with a friend or family member, a useful feature that's missing in Apple tablets. Google's Android OS gives you a choice of hardware from several different manufacturers and offers maximum customization, a top-notch notification system, fast and smooth web browsing, and seamless integration with Google applications such as Gmail, Google Maps, and Meet for video chat. iPads also have the best selection of accessories, including the outstanding second-generation Apple Pencil. iPads remain a supplement to, not a full replacement, for MacBooks. The downside of iPadOS is that while recent upgrades have improved multitasking, it still can't handle multiple users per device, and transferring files between apps is still kludgey.

Generally speaking, the greatest strengths of Apple's iPadOS are twofold: it's very clean and intuitive, and the numerous apps that you can buy right on your tablet-more than one million iPad-specific titles at the time of this writing-work uniformly well, with a very few exceptions.

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