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Hidden lede: Author is a fulltime blogger.

Sure, that can work. However that is only one niche, and for most professions out there that require computers, the iPad will not be sufficient, or at best wildly inefficient.

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Yes. This is such a specific use case that most workers don't follow. If he was doing a job using the full microsoft office suite - or alternatives - this would be far more representative of office workers. Of course, that misses all developers, but then again we know how far they are to actually letting us develop on an iPad.

Even for blogging, the iPad is a series of compromises. While there are image editors, none are on the level of photoshop and the audio software, while it exists isn't nearly as powerful or fast. I'm sure anything the author does, I can do faster and more efficiently with OS X. As a front end developer, sometimes contractor for TV Shows, and hobbyist musician who's made the odd dollar, not a single one of these activities are viable on the iPad.

Sure, the author does fine with an iPad and seems to like it but for most people this is simply not a reality.

I know quite a few people that spend most of their days in ssh, even running Emacs over the link. That is a natural for the iPad, now that it have good ssh clients.

(I tend to run my Emacs local, but I could change.)

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