Well I mentioned the point because of the authors point "I wouldn’t have been able to easily find a good app to do this without being bombarded with spam in my

Well I mentioned the point because of the authors point "I wouldn’t have been able to easily find a good app to do this without being bombarded with spam in my Google search. (And many of them would be Windows-only.)" Anyhow, I guess the author feels the ease with searching on the iPad[which you have also mentioned], which is true about the iOS ecosystem. Very easy to use definitely.