&gt; I&#x27;m of course not the target audience for iPads, but let&#x27;s not fool ourselves into thinking they&#x27;re anything but a toy.<p>iPads have been getting a lot of productivity improvements lately, however many have decided they&#x27;re just a toy and in doing so have been rather blind to their advance. To just name one, extensions allow inter-app handoff and are quite powerful at this point and well received by iOS devs and power users. Extensions solve the document transfer use case discussed in this subthread, and they don&#x27;t invoke cognitive load around filesystems. I&#x27;m hoping we can use 3d Touch to trigger them from the share button to further improve their efficiency. But that&#x27;s cool, lets all keep dragging files around with a mouse or typing in terminal and wait where did I save that file I was just working on again?<p>Another way to think about this is with iOS, Apple is going down the list from most common to least common use cases for end users, whereas over the last several decades with CLI and then WIMP interfaces, traditional PC devs have been going up the list of use cases from most dev-oriented to most end user. Nothing wrong with the results of the latter for development, but it turns out there&#x27;s a lot more end users than there are devs, and an exposed filesystem is a sacred cow of that the latter approach that can be solved in more than one way for the end user.<p>&gt; It takes something much more serious for a new computer generation to usurp its predecessor<p>Mainframe guys said the exact same thing about minicomputers.