John Olinda Just watched The Verge's review of the Nexus 9. What a load of garbage. It basically consisted of "It's not an iPad Air 2" and not much else. I'm not saying you have to say it's the best tablet ever, but it didn't even feel like it was being judged for what it was, but for what it wasn't.

Dongsung Kim Maybe that was the point. iPad is the biggest thing in the tablet market, and Google wants to outrun it with Nexus 9, so they wanted to know if it really did the better job, and they think it failed. I do agree tone from the video was a bit off, pace was too quick, there were too many iPad references, but overall it delivered a point I think. Reading through the YouTube comments, I wonder the reaction would be this much outrageous if the review were saying Nexus is so much better than iPad.

John Olinda But the thing is that I'm in the market segment that wants an Android tablet, so I don't really care if it's like an iPad. I've already had an iPad and know that I don't want that. So I just want to know if it's the best Android tablet for the money. I feel like The Verge always acts like you can compare them directly, but you can't. Now, for $400 I definitely have higher expectations for this than my Nexus 7 (2012) but I just wish it was viewed more in context. Of course at the end of the day I can't even buy one yet, so I'm sure the "dust" will have long settled by the time they go on sale here in Korea.

Dongsung Kim If it's Android that you want then I guess the review is simply not for you - after reading it through the primary topic seems to be an analysis if Nexus 9 would beat iPads. So without iPads the whole article loses meaning. I don't believe it's simply wrong to write a review from this perspective... but of course not really attractive to viewers, true.