to not mind my in laws buying my 5yo dd a tablet for Xmas, but worrying she'll think it is shite cos she is used to my iPad?

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Sorry - just that.

If she's used to an iPad then a tablet designed for a child (leap pad, innotab etc) will be utterly shite.

A decent android tablet (not a kindle fire) would probably be OK, but she would need to adjust, and wouldn't be able to get some of the apps she is used to.

Op had you thought about asking them to buy her an ipod touch instead .... can get the same games she enjoys and is more in the price range .
I have one and love it and santa has brought my 3 dgc one each for xmas so they don't keep nicking mummys ipad .
I have a galaxy tablet and use it lots but some games the dgc love you can only get on apple .
don't think she is spoilt and can see your reasoning that you don, t want them to waste money .

Ps dd got all 3 dgc childrens tablets last year and they just found them slow and never played with them .
dd put them on ebay by spring .
total waste of money and they were, nt cheap.

cant help but judge tbh.

itsallgoingtobefine totally agree.

Made the mistake of getting 3 and 5 year old Innotab and Leapster last Xmas ~ they hated them and they have never been used ~ just awful compared to iPad they were used too.

Older DS and DD have iPad minis and little ones will be getting these rather than rubbish they won't use. iPads in our home are used for education and fun and guess they all like iPads because that's what they are used to. I like my Kindle Fire but no one else in house does but that's great cos don't need to share

Where are all these children with expensive tablets because I don't know any???

What's all this guff about 'the last in the class to have one'. At 5? If that truly is the case then yes, spoilt brats, the lot of them.

Well DS is 5 and he has access to one, but no, he doesn't have his own and he won't for many many years yet.

If ever there was an example of a first world problem.... This is a shining example.

5 years old and having an opinion about technology? Give me strength! Yes we are in 2013, but you are creating a rod for you own back by enabling a child to pick and choose and get discerning about stuff like iPads. It is just stuff. Yes, if you give it credence the demands will continue to increase and multiple. If you see that as a positive thing, fine its your child.

Like it or lump it would be my only response to any such wingeing!

I think it is a bit spoilt to have a tablet at 5, yes. But the ops in laws are buying it, not her, and if they want to gift it to her, why not? She might like having her own tablet, rather than using her mums.

Not sure if people are deliberately misunderstanding. Again thanks to those who are continuing to give really helpful input!

As several posters have explained, I simply don't want my inlaws to spend £100 on something that will never be used.

Oh what planet does receiving a tablet as a gift equal spoilt brat?

I think someone needs to define what a spoilt brat is.

daisy are you seriously suggesting a 5yo shouldn't have an opinion on the things it likes playing with?

A child is not a 'spoiled brat' because they have a tablet.

to those objecting to the term 'spoilt brat' check out the question, which suggests that the child would reject the tablet as 'shite' because it's not an ipad.

Fukkingup, if she is just using it for the games then it should be fine.

Most apps like the ones you have mentioned are available on android as well as the Ipad.

She'll still be able to play them like before.

Well it was the OP that said "shite" but we are talking about a five year old here.

I think it's pretty clear that the OP is concerned that in laws will be spending all that money and her DD won't get good use of it because it's different from the Ipad.

Children can be funny like that. It doesn't make them spoilt and it's pretty damn rude to suggest that the OPs child is.

Blimey.
When I was five I think I had an opinion on dolls.

Carlajean. My lovely little girl, whom you are so quick to judge, is really very sweet. She has no concept of cost, of the apple brand, or of being spoilt. She would give away everything if I let her.

However, if the new tablet is slow or has a poor quality camera and has not got the apps she enjoys, which I get free and I am not about to start buying expensive apps; then when allowed screen time she will ask for my iPad and not her tablet. Indeed she will offer it to the first friend she sees who has not got a tablet. Not a great investment for my inlaws.

She won't call it shite. My question is asking the general mumsnet public if a £100 tablet can stand up to apple in the eyes of a child.

I genuinely can't understand some people here.

I can only assume that the people posting the negative comments either don't know much about 'tablets' or are really just not moving with the times.

It would be like saying the brick sized cell phone I had in 1999 was just the same as my current smartphone, because hey, they are both phones.

My DS (9) has an Ipad. I have a ancient laptop from work.

I LOVE his Ipad. I have looked into tablets etc as they are cheaper and I'd really like one of my own. However having used the Ipad and researched extensively the ability to do what the Ipad does on a tablet - I have come to the conclusion I'd rather have nothing than a tablet.

How about suggesting to her GP's that they buy her a small gift for her birthday and you help towards the cost of an Ipad mini for her? EG a £20 gift for her birthday and you top up the £180 left she'd usually spend towards the Ipad mini for Christmas.

In the eyes of my DC a £100 tablet does not compare to iPad. They are not spoilt and do not know the cost of tablets ~ just basically what they like and don't like. I totally understand that you do not want £100 spent on a tablet that your DD will not use ~ that would be wasteful.

It won't be as good, but it will be hers, and at 5, I think that's pretty good going. You say she is not spoilt, so she will understand she's not going to get top notch (adult) products of her own. She will get used to it and you can negotiate if and when you allow her to use your ipad for certain functions. The point is that the tablet is her own, rather than having to borrow yours as and when it suits.