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Like I said, I wasn't sure about photos beyond knowing that the synching system for photos is a pain. That really needs drag and drop vs. synch to make it easier to just add a couple photos here and there. To do that now you need an iPad photo folder on your PC and then put just the picks (and sub-folders of pics to make albums) in there and synch that every time you add pics to it. Other wise if you sync, and then go back at a later date and sync another folder from another location on the PC it will remove the existing photos from the iPad and only the new will remain.
Music I assumed was in one place, but didn't bother with that as I wouldn't use music on a tablet.
So I was just speaking of PDFs as those type of documents are the only thing I played around with as one of my main interests in a tablet is reading pdfs of scholarly articles etc. For those there doesn't seem to be a central file location. As you note, even with the wifi sharing, each app has it's own location which is very clunky vs. just having a file system like windows and macs and being able to open files through apps by browsing to the location in the open menu.
In any case, none of this is unmanageable. But it's too much hassle in a $500+ device so I'll wait and see if Android tablets are better on that front, if Apple adds a file management system via update or the 2nd gen iPad.
I don't need a full tablet PC, but I do want PC like file management where I can just sort through folders to find the file I want to open (or through the "open" menu in apps like in pc programs), drag and drop content into folders (even if it's in iTunes) etc.
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