On my Android tab I have 5 fully customised screens with icons laid out how I want and widgets showing app updates. All I need to do is glance at my tablet and I see my latest 3 calendar events, latest 5 e-mails my combined accounts and the 3 latest new headlines in tech, uk and world news. That's just my main screen, I have other useful stuff on my other screens.
I can wirelessly browse the contents of my PC and watch any music/videos/pictures on my tablet streamed from PC over WiFi, I can copy any files and open them over wifi as if my computer was just an SD card. I can hook up any generic usb hub, pen drive, keyboard and mouse, my PS3 pad (via BT or usb) or xbox pad, 3G dongles and webcams as if it were a PC. I can plug my tab straight into my TV's HDMI and watch movies or I can use it as a VLC player remote control (or remote desktop client) for my PC. I don't need to go through any programs to transfer files, just drag and drop.
What I don't get is that iPad can't do any of that yet they're still the definitive pad to have. they still have the phone-style "collection of apps" interface and are quite restrictive about what they can do. If you want to check for news/twitter/facebook/calendar updates you have to open it's specific app, you have to use them how Apple tells you and not how you want to. I know there are more tablet specific apps for the iPad, if you can afford them, but theres nothing it can do that an Android tablet can't as far as I know. The marketing makes them sell well yes and the fact they have the industry known name, iPad is to tablets as Hoover is to Vaccum cleaners. That doesn't show why they get good reviews and people still stick by them though.
What is it that makes the iPad so impressive for so many people, why is it peoples tablet of choice?
*Disclaimer this is a genuine question, I want opinions. I want to know what I'm missing out on*
