iPad is amazing for reading and casual content.

In particular, I like annotating content in books.

I’d never in a billion years trust anyone with this lack of awareness of the niche nature of their own priorities and desires to build software.

The iPod is wildly popular. Not everyone has the same philosophical bent as you.

Good thing you're not in charge of designing Apple products.

Ipads are widely considered by analysts and the tech press to be, well not a failure exactly, but a marginal product that has yet to find its niche.

This is despite the fact that they solidly outsell macs. And if they were not from Apple but were a private company they’d be considered one of the few remarkably enormous hits in the tech industry. But Apple is so big it (supposedly) doesn’t matter.

I use an air for taking notes, because handwritten notes are all searchable, and some document annotation. That makes it worth it for me though my mac is my main drive.

There are more than half a billion iPads out there.

I have been using an iPad Pro as my primary computing device for more than a year now. It works pretty wonderfully for my use case. I just finished writing my dissertation on it last week, actually. I have an old MacBook that I use for specific tasks once or twice a week, but otherwise my iPad, pencil, and keyboard/mouse/5k monitor on my desk works really, really well — better than a laptop by far for my workflow: Zotero/Markdown/MSWord/Logseq/Obsidian.

I’m very happy to not use a general purpose computer anymore, to be honest.

I think the fact that you have to use a MacBook once or twice a week for specific tasks says everything.

The iPad Pro has been literally as fast as a MBA and supported KB/M input alongside touch and pen for years but you still run into weird edge cases where it's either too janky and time consuming to do on the iPad (e.g. file management) or some really basic app is just missing.

> Who buys iPads anyway?

I do.

> I have two and I regret it.

Apparently, so do you.

Reminds me of my favourite Bushism:

"There's an old saying in Tennessee—I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee—that says, 'Fool me once, shame on...shame on you. Fool me—you can't get fooled again.'"