I don't agree with the "people can't create" thing with tablets.
I do a podcast entirely on my iPad, I also record music on it - and in both cases significantly prefer it to doing the same on my computer.
I also sketch stuff (although a decent digitiser would help) and my daughter records and edits films on it as well (she says it's too fiddly editing video on the Mac). I write numerous blog posts and I've written one essay on it (using an external keyboard). I even used it for coding (well not really, just as an SSH client to a linux box, but the inbuilt 3G over MOSH made it extremely convenient for doing non-UI work).
I've not had to do any spreadsheet stuff on it, and I can see why that would be a weakness. Nor have I had to do any Photoshop-level image editing (I have done simple image editing).
But for most "creation" tasks I find the iPad to be competent, and in some cases (especially audio editing) to be superior to a "computer".
Of course, none of the stuff is "professional" level creation - but that still fits perfectly with Steve Jobs' cars vs trucks analogy - most people don't need that level of control.
I do a podcast entirely on my iPad, I also record music on it - and in both cases significantly prefer it to doing the same on my computer.
I also sketch stuff (although a decent digitiser would help) and my daughter records and edits films on it as well (she says it's too fiddly editing video on the Mac). I write numerous blog posts and I've written one essay on it (using an external keyboard). I even used it for coding (well not really, just as an SSH client to a linux box, but the inbuilt 3G over MOSH made it extremely convenient for doing non-UI work).
I've not had to do any spreadsheet stuff on it, and I can see why that would be a weakness. Nor have I had to do any Photoshop-level image editing (I have done simple image editing).
But for most "creation" tasks I find the iPad to be competent, and in some cases (especially audio editing) to be superior to a "computer".
Of course, none of the stuff is "professional" level creation - but that still fits perfectly with Steve Jobs' cars vs trucks analogy - most people don't need that level of control.