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Since I'm in the process of buying a tablet, I'd welcome elaboration on "it's simply too fiddly to resize text all the time".

Do you mean that (like Mobile Safari) Chrome does not reflow text, so that you cannot make the text big enough to read without making the text expand past the edge of the window, so you have to scroll each line of text horizontally?

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Chrome reflows the text on the Nexus 7 -- pretty much the greatest mobile browsing feature ever and I miss it terribly on my iPhone.

I think his point was more than you have to resize text on the Nexus 7 because the screen is much smaller than an iPad. Pretty much every page on the Nexus will require a pinch zoom and a tap before you start reading.

Also, Chrome on Nexus 7 has a lot of "accessibility" options, so you can size the default reflowable text to your comfort, which reduces any need to manually squeeze/expand. (Nexus 7 is dramatically superior to a New(3) iPad.)

iOS has the "reader" function which, in my opinion (when it works) is nearly ideal.

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