I have seen some really cool applications of iPads in businesses and other public places, such as fast and intuitive payment systems at walk-up lunch counters.

I have seen some really cool applications of iPads in businesses and other public places, such as fast and intuitive payment systems at walk-up lunch counters. These will always be better than laptops or phones for the task. (Even Apple Pay seems oddly clumsy to me; after taking out my phone and trying to interface with a device properly, it just seems less straightforward than tapping some buttons and scribbling my signature with my finger like I can on the iPad interfaces.) I wish that web browsing were better on the iPad; that should have been the killer feature. On day one, before web sites knew about the iPad, it was incredible. Sadly (and ironically, for a "walled garden" device that is supposed to be so restrictive itself), the most out-of-control feature of an iPad seems to be the web sites you visit. They have way too much damned control over the browser, and they keep trying to deliver a special iPad experience when all I want is a web site. If Apple really wants a good feature in iOS 10, they should make Safari stubbornly refuse to do 90% of what web sites "request".