The Nexus 9 by HTC is a tablet that's been a long time coming. It's the updated Nexus 7, it's the rebooted Nexus 10, and it's the Nexus 8 too. The tablet seems to have been through a number of internal iterations, mostly because the tablet market has evolved so rapidly of late. It saw Apple enter the mini tablet space, and then decide to effectively pull out by choosing to bring the most minimal updates possible to the iPad mini 3.