Google Pixel Tablet vs. Apple iPad: Should You Ditch iPadOS for an Android Tablet?

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Google formally revealed the Pixel Tablet at I/O this week, its reentry into the tablet market, and it's looking to pit it squarely against the Apple iPad.

Both tablets are similarly priced and sized, and target the same lifestyle consumers who want a better-than-budget experience without paying top dollar. We'll be putting the Pixel Tablet through its paces in the lab to fully compare the two in the future, but for now, we can look at the official specs and features of both. Let's see how they stack up.

Pricing is always the most obvious aspect to compare directly, and it's where Google might hit a big stumbling block. The iPad (10th Gen) starts at $449, a significant $50 less than the Pixel Tablet. To be fair, at $499 the Pixel Tablet has double the iPad's storage (128GB vs. 64GB), but they both even out to 256GB with their $599 models. The Pixel Tablet's saving grace here is the included Charging Speaker dock, which Google values at $129. Either way, $499 is a fairly big ask for an Android tablet when the category has long trailed behind Apple.

Apple and Google's tablets are within a hair's breadth of each other in size and weight. The Pixel Tablet is 0.3 inches thick while the iPad is 0.28 inches thick, a difference of just half a millimeter, and could possibly be a rounding error on Google's part in the Pixel Tablet's specs. The iPad is slightly wider and shorter at 9.8 by 7.1 inches compared with 10.2 by 6.7 inches, but again those measurements are close enough to be negligible. They're nearly identical in weight, too, with the 17.4-ounce Pixel Tablet coming in as the average of the Wi-Fi and 5G iPad models' weights.

Apple and Google each use their own chips to drive their respective tablets, with an A14 Bionic in