<story><title>Nexus 7, Made for Google Play</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&amp;feature=single-wide-banner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.</text></item><item><author>UnFleshedOne</author><text>You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some &quot;not the latest&quot; anxiety?</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It ships with Jellybean... I&apos;ve been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it&apos;s already out of date and hasn&apos;t even shipped yet. I don&apos;t want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can&apos;t read magazines on it, it&apos;s too small. I&apos;m just going to give up and get an iPad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jamesaguilar</author><text>I love that people accuse Apple of planned obsolescence in the phone market when Google releases operating systems that don&apos;t even work on devices that came out in the current year.</text></comment>
<story><title>Nexus 7, Made for Google Play</title><url>https://play.google.com/store/devices/details?id=nexus_7_8gb&amp;feature=single-wide-banner</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>btipling</author><text>Tablets are expensive. I cannot afford to buy a tablet every year. So I want a tablet that is future proof. The 10 inch tablets that others will release this year will have an outdated operating system on them and will still cost many hundreds of dollars. I do not want to spend hundreds of dollars on an outdated operating system. I love Android, but this terrible to the extreme.</text></item><item><author>UnFleshedOne</author><text>You mean they should stop working on the OS to save you some &quot;not the latest&quot; anxiety?</text></item><item><author>btipling</author><text>It ships with Jellybean... I&apos;ve been waiting for the Samsung 10 inch tablet with the stylus, but it&apos;s already out of date and hasn&apos;t even shipped yet. I don&apos;t want a 7inch tablet and it is going to be years by the time a Jelly Bean 10 inch tablet comes out and by that time there will already be a new version of the OS! I already have a Fire and I can&apos;t read magazines on it, it&apos;s too small. I&apos;m just going to give up and get an iPad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>corin_</author><text>You&apos;re never going to have a tablet that is future proof if you don&apos;t want to upgrade every year... because there will always be newer, better ones coming out, and newer versions of Android.&lt;p&gt;Your complaint isn&apos;t that buying now would force you to use an outdated operating system, it&apos;s that you would use an outdated operating system for a little longer than you normally would.</text></comment>