The iPad Awkwardly Turns 10
This is a very good take on the subject. I love the iPad, I use it all the time. It&#x27;s an unbelievably good piece of hardware with a number of really good software applications. It is a surprisingly good thinking and note-taking tool, it&#x27;s the best tool (period) for reading datasheets (or any large PDF documents), it is a great music workstation if you connect a MIDI keyboard and&#x2F;or an external USB audio interface. But it is so sadly limited by the user interface and artificial restrictions that Apple places on the OS.<p>The worst thing is that the forced over-simplification of the UI features did <i>not</i> make it easier to use for beginners. I can see many people (including myself) struggling. So we have been forced into a &quot;compromise&quot; with all the downside, but none of the upside.<p>Given how great the hardware is (really, I think this is under-appreciated), I really hope Apple can get out of that thinking rut.<p>I also think that the slow iPad sales are directly connected to the mediocre OS software.