I think that overstates things and it’s a blinkered “developer” perspective. Many professionals use iPads to create and do real work every day: writers, artists, designers, lawyers, etc.iPads aren’t useful for developers, but developers are a vanishingly small percentage of the population.

“Pro” != Developer. There are many other professions

That's not exactly what I meant. My post above wasn't that well phrased.

The problem is that if you do all those things on an iPad, you don't own your data. It belongs to whatever walled garden you're working in. Uninstall the app and your data is gone. Stop renting cloud and your data is gone. The company running the app goes bankrupt and your data might be gone.

This is the fundamental difference I see between "mobile" and "desktop" ecosystems. Mobile is designed from the ground up to place you into a much more subservient relationship to vendors. I've described the mobile ecosystem as "feudal computing."

If they're emphasizing the word "consumer" why do they put "Pro" in the product name? I generally agree w/ you by the way (just think your reasoning is wrong). Apple clearly has no interest in making an iPad into a computer anytime in the near future. But somehow "Why isn't this a computer yet?" is all you hear after any iPad announcement.