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Everyone has their specific needs and wants when it comes to tablets and computers. I think companies try to decide what will sell and what won't, and design their hardware accordingly. I remember thinking how cool it would be to have a touchscreen laptop that could fold the keyboard around behind like the Yoga 2 models from Lenova. I thought I would use the touchscreen all the time. Then I bought a Yoga 2 11 a few years ago and quickly learned that using the touchscreen was terrible, at least compared to an iPad. But as far as iPads go, I find the lack of mouse support a bit frustrating at times. With fat fingers I find I sometimes spend way more time getting the iPad to do what I need it to do than I would on my MacBook Pro. For example, trying to edit a spreadsheet on my iPad Pro, even with the Apple Pencil, is a lesson in frustration! I can get the same edits done on my MBP in a fraction of the time. But honestly, I think it is more about using the best tool, tablet or computer, for each task. I thought adding touchscreen capability to a laptop was a smart idea, but it turned out to be nearly useless n my case. I suspect adding mouse control to an iPad would be disappointing as well because iOS is simply not designed around the idea of using mice. It seems rather disappointing when they try to combine the great feature of tablets and laptops into a single device type. So I use my iPads/iPhones when they are best for the task, and I use my MBP or a PC when it is best for the task. Hopefully some smart designers will one day figure out how to create one piece of hardware that does everything great, but I'm not too optimistic that will ever happen.
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