I think by real work they mean the kind of work you do for 8 hours or more a day (or "get shit done" type of work) like using Excel on desktop with all it's bel

I think by real work they mean the kind of work you do for 8 hours or more a day (or "get shit done" type of work) like using Excel on desktop with all it's bells and whistles, checking stuff on your crm and making a report based on it, programming etc. Sure even sending emails can be real work(and there are many people whose half the time at work is spent just sending emails) and you have been able to do that using symbian phones for more than a decade now. Putting the term "real work" into context makes sense here because iPad gets compared to laptops a lot but it can't even remotely be used for the breadth of work that you can get done on a desktop in a practical sense.