Nobody Knows What An iPad Is Good For Anymore

We've been asking this question since the iPad first came out.

Five years after its debut, the iPad faces an existential dilemma. No one knows what it’s good for. When Apple unveiled its tablet, the value proposition was relatively straightforward. At that time, you had your iPhone 3GS with its tiny screen, and your MacBook with its two-hour battery life. Those products left a nice big swath of casual use cases in-between for a third device to take care of.