So people are supposed to live with inferior technologies in order to encourage innovation? I'm going to let you in on a deep and dark secret: touch screens have been around for decades, but have never caught on because they are not suitable for intensive and prolonged use. Unless you are using a stylus, they also lack precision. Precision is fundamental for some work. Before anyone gets on their high horse, I'm not saying that touch screens are useless. They certainly make life easier for quick inputs that can be spatially organized. I'm sure that you can add a few more things to that list. But they will never be a panacea for data entry jobs.

Actually, they make decisions for themselves after the vendor has filtered the options. At least that is the case in the Apple ecosystem. You may be shocked to hear this, but some of us actually use the advanced features provided by desktop software. Apple refuses to allow some of those features into their store. To give you an example: you can write scripts to pull data from a website and dump it into a spreadsheet, then perform analysis. Tablets are capable of doing this type of work. There is nothing in their programming and hardware that prevents it. Alas, the deciding factor is a policy decision by the vendor.

Now you can choose a different tablet to avoid that stupidity, and I have. Microsoft has even gone as far as offering another option to that slate. Which kinda leaves me wondering: why are so many people wishing Microsoft ill in their new venture? It is, after all, just another option.