It's not a meme. The core of the problem is the forced sandboxing of apps and lack of any reasonable IPC mechanism built in. The individual apps are great, but

It's not a meme. The core of the problem is the forced sandboxing of apps and lack of any reasonable IPC mechanism built in. The individual apps are great, but the lack of ability to multitask holds you back. That lack of featurism causes app developers to reinvent lots of basic stuff in their apps to get all the features they want. And sure, that happens on PCs too - but to a far lesser extent. If you're familiar with the unix philosophy of making apps as filters, making them do one thing, and do it well - you'll understand how productive it can make you - and how there's no chance of reproducing that on a (non jailbroken) iPad. And yes, I wasn't referring to art, but the software itself. Try creating an iPad app purely on the iPad - I wish you luck.