srkmish
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iPad is good but too costly especially the new models. You can do everything on the nexus 7 that you can do with the iPad and it comes with better specs too and as anupam_pb said it competes directly with the iPad mini at the same time being cheaper and better specced.
The new nexus 7" has even better specs and it blows the iPad mini out of the water.
Its specs are unofficially confirmed to be:
FullHD 1980 x 1200 display (iPad mini is still stuck on 1024*768)
Snapdragon 600 quad core processor with adreno 320 GPU (same as top end phones like the Galaxy S4 and HTC one)
2GB RAM
5MP camera,1.2MP front cam
Slim port for HDMI out
Wireless charging
16GB/32GB variants at $229/269 resp
Android 4.3 and guaranteed future updates
Not bad eh?
Specs are not everything man. Ipads have a track record of being very reliable over a long period of time while u can see threads filled with Nexus 7 performance degradation after a couple of months due to tegra 3 chip corruption. Plus ipad mini has a larger screen estate to play with.
Coming to specs, my dual core A5X + 512 MB Ram ipad mini can play any game you throw at it and has better battery life than any other tab out there ( except for Ipad 4 of course).
My preferred combo of gadgets is - Ipad mini(Gaming) + Ipad 4(Will buy soon for browsing/pdfs) + Android Phone( Love android phones)