Kinda the same thing here. My parents wanted to buy a tablet and my father does not want an Apple product for various reasons. I bought them a Nexus 10 (it was a year ago), anyway since I am an Android dev it is easier to provide support for this product. Personally, I have found this tablet pretty meh, but they don't have the same usage than me at all and they just love this tablet for pretty much the same kind of usage you describe : surf the web, mails, hangouts, view pictures, ...