Agreed. The vast majority of humans who are doing “real work” on computers use just one or two applications. The vast minority of people are software developers and IT workers.

Lawyers, accountants, nurses, doctors, paramedics, tree surgeons, baristas, plumbers, electricians, shop assistants, mechanics, jewellers, cleaners... most of these people - if they want to use computers at all - want them to be less complicated, they don’t generally care about interoperability between applications, and iPad in some cases fits the bill. Its simplicity for some of these use cases is an enabler.

To my mind there seems to be two independent narratives at play here:

- “is the iPad better than a general purpose computer?” for many use cases, yes it is.

- “Is it perfect?” Perhaps not yet. But it’s more perfect for those use cases than what came before.