Had some time to think... I am gonna play with this thing some more and try to decide what to do. If I limit myself to just email, web browsing, a news reader, Netflix and really basic stuff, I think it is excellent.
If I want to get some serious work done on it, or tinker, or just be able to carry and work on basic documents without having to use apps and workarounds, I can think of better solutions for $550...
I am annoyed that Apple puts such excellent work into the hardware and design, and then intentionally cripples it with software limitations and by foregoing common and industry standard features. They do it so that you either have to buy additional apps and accessories, or they do it because the hardware on the iPad is almost capable of replacing your Mac Book, so if they didn't hold it back in certain ways, people might stop buying expensive Mac Books and instead just get cheaper iPads... They have to differentiate between the two platforms so that you buy both, not one or the other.
That may be the biggest difference between Apple and Android or even Windows... Android tablets do a lot more, and do everything an Android phone does and everything a netbook does and almost everything that an actual PC does, and it does it in a similar, familiar fashion, so the learning curve is shallow.
The Windows tablets(not RC) are windows PC's in a tablet form factor. USB 3.0 ports, runs full native Windows software with 100% compatibility, no emulation.
The iPad does what the iPhone does, but it doesn't do what a Mac does, or a PC, or Linux or Android.
It could, but they decided to make it just do a few things, and it does them very well, but anything else is a hack and just not the same...
So I have to either accept that this thing will only be a high end eReader, or I need to suck it up and return it for something else.
I really want to like this thing, I do. I like having something different for a change... but I am getting the feeling that there is a good reason why Android owns the global market in phones, and has also passed iOS in tablets as well.
Decisions decision... I really hate this, having to decide, I just wanted a tablet that does what I want! LOL