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By way of a preamble: I bought a Nexus 7. I really like it. I’m not going to start using a ChromeBook or Galaxy S Flavor of the Month. I’ve never touched an Android device before. These are my raw notes after using it for about a day ( well mostly, I did some minor cleaning up and added relevancy links where appropriate)

• maybe my hands are just baby smooth but the back feels very slick to me. But I like that it’s not aluminum makes me feel better about putting it down on a hard surface
• 7” form factor is pretty decent
• not sure how suited it is for creation, but seems great for consumption. I’m OK with that
• Android 4.1 (I refuse to call it Jelly Bean) doesn’t suck and I’m a little excited to discover the little things it can do
• haven’t noticed too much lagginess
• so nice to just be able to go to the website and download the Newton emulator
• I may not hate the headphone jack on the bottom
• it’s not retina but it’s pretty damn close. Some things look somewhere in between non retina and retina. Icons and whatnot here and there
• widgets are pretty cool
• as much of an Apple “fanboy” as I am, I do love the ability to hack on shit
• while I don’t think it’s going to take over the world, I think this is a good time to get on board with Android
• the no landscape on the home screen thing is weird
• the power button has strange ideas about what constitutes a long hold
• NES EMULATOR!1!!!1!

Things I’ve done on the Nexus that I could never, and probably will never be able to, do on iOS:

• downloaded apps from the web and installed them
• downloaded files from the Dropbox app to the device memory to open in another app
• attached to my Mac and dragged and dropped files onto the device
• launched a terminal emulator and interacted with the file system
• installed a Python interpreter and it’s not crippled (even if it is 2.6.2)