I'm on my 3rd iPad...just bought this on two weeks ago. Is a 9.7" pro model. I had the previous one for 4 years and 3 months, and it has been slowly dying for abou 6 months, but i kept nursing it along hoping for an iPad pro2 to be announced. With the latest announcement, we decided to bite the bullet and upgrade. DW had a mini, the first one out, that the earphone jack no longer worked. She got a mini 4.
We are consolidated on the apple platform now, but a year ago, i bought a droid tablet for my 80 year old parents. I spent a few weeks playing with it so I could teach them how to use it. I bought it in hopes that we could use it for them to communicate with their grandkids a bit more. They are the type of older folks who only have an old $10 a month AARP flip phone, that they ONLY turn on if they need to make a call, and then turn off...because they don't want to waste the battery. So communicating with them is sometimes a problem. But I digress. After opening it and staring at the icons for a couple moments, they couldn't follow the the instructions I left for them, even after showing them and having them walk thru them with me. Next time they saw me they gave it back.
Anyway, I did find the android a bit less user friendly than the iPad. The newer iPad Pro is also much faster. More than that, the Apple eco system allows you to buy an app once, and use it on several devices. I have numerous apps that I have on both my phone and my iPad, and with iCloud, I can pick up on my other device exactly where I left off on one device. I'm sure google has similar functions, if you stay on one platform, but not so sure what hoops you have to jump thru if using two different ecosystems. At the very least, paid apps must be bought again in the second ecosystem. Barring future quality issues, I won't be leaving an "all Apple" platform for my personal needs.