IPad's and Android tablets aren't 10 inch phones...... To call them that are once again lies. And as far as Windows tablets goes they suck. No desire to spend $500 for a Windows experience and a crappy one at it on a platform that as much as it wants to try on a tablet. The windows surface pro 4 is a decent option but not at $900 since the cheapest option is a total waste even more so then the 16gb iPad's and etc. Windows takes a huge chunk of space.
Emotional? Who's getting emotional? I'm calling what you are which is fanboy who obviously Hates apple products and calling an iPad a bigger iPhone which it isn't....
When you just call names and say this sucks, etc... It's the argument that a child would make. Obviously, Apple is "your team" in the same way that many people create emotional attachments to a sports team. When the team wins, they "win"... if you point out the flaw in the team, it's seen as a personal attack against them by proxy.
There are lots of psychiatric studies on this, go read some of them, they are both entertaining and enlightening.
Back to the topic... I think that the tablets served a good purpose when they first came out, because at that time, phones were so small. It wasn't practical to read or play games or edit a spreadsheet on a 3.5" phone screen...
So the tablets have a single, but significant benefit. Screen real estate. Tasks that were hard to do on the phone, were easier on the larger screen. But they were not PC's(either a Mac or Windows) platform, so they didn't really do anything DIFFERENT. Meaning, there are no extra capabilities in the tablets, that were not already on the phones. Again, only difference is screen size.
Enter Windows tablets, and now you have all the portability and convenience of the tablet, but the power and flexibility of the laptop...
The Apple and Android tablets, don't offer that. They are in essence, just large phones, with or without the ability to make calls.
It's not a lie because you don't like it or understand it. It is what it is.
I for one was hoping that the iPad Pro was going to have a version of Mac OS on it. Just making it a little faster and adding a larger screen, but still being not much more than a larger version of a giant version of the iPhone... Just doesn't impress me. It's still running watered down mobile apps, the UI looks horrible on a screen that large because it still uses the same layout and grid structure as the iPhone 4... Now you just get icons the size of a ritz cracker... LOL
Anyway, relax, no need to get all worked up and fiesty over it...
I still have my iPad... I thought it made sense at the time, but if I could do it over again I wouldn't get one. I wouldn't get an Android tablet either. I would get a Surface type tablet... even if they cost a couple bucks more, you are getting an actual computer, in a tablet form factor... Best of all worlds...