To be fair, there aren't even really great experiences to be had with a good android tablet. The OS and app ecosystem simply isn't good enough for big screens.
I don't know what you mean by "big", but I've loved the experience of my Nexus 7 (2012). Great for reading books, good for reading comic books, good for watching movies/TV by yourself. Not really any better for social media than a phone. Haven't tried any content creation on it other than a few memes, and sshing into an emacs session on a real computer.
I'll replace it this year because of hardware problems (does not recognize charger except when turned off). But it's run up to Android 5.1.1 with no trouble.
I bought an Android tablet last year. I was holidaying in South America for six weeks and did not want to carry a full laptop with me.
I basically used it as an Ebook Reader / Mp3 player /way to upload photos from my camera to cloud while travelling.
Since I returned to Australia it has been gathering dust there is no use case for it in my day to day life. As a cheap almost disposable laptop for travel it was great for anything more then that I don't see the point.
I agree. I was pretty stoked when I got a Nexus 7, but it was basically killed by system upgrades slowing the system down to nothing. Apple has done an okay job keeping the older models still functioning even if they do not get all the functionality of latest iOS.
