It was never going to be easy to follow up on the collective package of brilliance that the Xiaomi Pad 6 from last year proved to be. I can attest to that with certainty, having relied on that as my primary work machine more often than any other Android tablet in the past decade. With the Xiaomi Pad 7 having to follow up on that effort, it was always going to be a scenario where risk was potentially higher than the reward. More that couldn’t match up to the predecessor’s slickness, and even if there was a collective step forward, that’s what everyone expected, didn’t they?
There is a certain degree of aggressiveness with the way Xiaomi has priced the Pad 7, and I’ll illustrate that with how it…