I agree with you, real office support (there are ~compatible apps on both iPad and Android) seems a very weak selling point on a tablet. I personally don't care

I agree with you, real office support (there are ~compatible apps on both iPad and Android) seems a very weak selling point on a tablet. I personally don't care for it: my tablet is a "potato couch" or information consumption device. For the occasional office document viewing the existing apps are plenty enough. If I need to do serious work, I'll grab my laptop. And the many convertible products announced also leave me cold. I used to think such convertible devices would be the next big thing, but no more after looking at it. For me a convertible is either too big for a tablet, or too small for a laptop. Plus the balancing is usually wrong in laptop mode (too much weight in the screen/tablet). In the end it looks like a seaplane: neither a good boat nor a good plane. But just like a seaplane some people will have a use for it ;) On my side, there are now cheap and light tablets. For roughly the same price I'd rather have a cheap tablet (Nexus 7 is plenty enough for me for example) and a cheap but ok laptop. I can put both in a bag, and it's still lighter than my previous laptop. Then I can have the best device for my current usage. Sync is not a problem, there are plenty of options to deal with this, and for what I use the tablet for it really doesn't need to have the same OS as the laptop (different usage, different apps. And actually not many on the tablet). But it's a big world, and maybe I'm not mainstream. We'll see when the hype settles and the actual sales number start to fall.