> some people dislike the iPad on-screen keyboard enough to part with money for the option of having a real one occasionally (emphasis mine). And it's the key.

> some people dislike the iPad on-screen keyboard enough to part with money for the option of having a real one occasionally (emphasis mine). And it's the key. The use case of my iPad is that it's simply brilliant when there's no need for a keyboard, and for those cases where there's a need to input text but the soft keyboard is more than enough of a compromise compared to all others advantages. For those same cases my MacBook simply feels like a hack. I won't argue that there's no room for improvement in various areas on iOS because there is, but I'm sick of hearing that "iPads are useless and that's it".