I don't see it that black and white. The big difference between iPad and PC is the input. It's no surprise that consumers are less power users of input methods

I don't see it that black and white. The big difference between iPad and PC is the input. It's no surprise that consumers are less power users of input methods than people working on their machines. Power users always use less intuitive, but more efficient input. The mouse accelerates my cursor, it moves farther then the mouse travels and has great accuracy. On the iPad I'd have to stir my arm around all day and selecting within text with your finger in the way was never fun either (though the latter can be fixed easily). I could only imagine in "air mouse", like a touchpad on your desk with mouse-like tapping and scrolling per finger. Typing is where I see input methods might evolve. A touch-typists will remain more efficient, especially coding for a long time. Physical feedback on screen-keyboards would have to improve to the level of physical keyboards to fix that. Good speech to text (or mumble to text¹) might overtake the keyboard for prose but not for code unless the synax of programming languages adapts. After that I see eye-tracking and direct brain interfaces, but those wouldn't be iPad exclusive either. ¹ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUSc53Xpeg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuUSc53Xpeg