You make a good point on the price, though it wouldn't be 50% more expensive if Google were trying to sell it for the normal market rate, just an extra 25-30% would do it I reckon. People at this end of the market don't have Apple sized profit margins remember

But that doesn't change the fact that the hardware is good and Android 4.1 is good to use. Note, in neither case did I say great. To me the iPad 3 is a great tablet and iOS is great to use.

The Nexus would be good (but not great) even if it did cost 50% more. And even if the Nexus did sell for 50% more the iPad 3 would still cost 66% more (in the UK at least).