I Can't Find a Single Productive Use For My Tablet

I have an iPad3 and a Nexus 7. They sit mostly unused. I'll pick up the iPad3 once in while just for fun. I've played a few games to completion (Sword and Sworcery, Groove Coaster) but that's about it.

I don't find them good for consuming except for movies on a plane. Movies at home? The bigger the screen the better. I'd much rather watch movies on my 42 inch TV from my sofa than my tablets.

Reading? I'd much rather use my Kindle Paperwhite. It's better on the eyes and soooo much lighter.

Browsing the internet? I'm a curious person and I click lots of links. So for example I'll come to HN and ctrl click every title that sounds interesting. Tablets hate this workflow as they start removing tabs. Even when it does work invariably I'll run into a page that doesn't work on the tablet. Maybe it's a WebGL page. Maybe it's a Flash page. Maybe it's a page that requires interactivity but does not respond to touch events.

Finally I'll want to comment on something or post something I found to my facebook or G+. In those cases tablets suck balls. Editing text in a tablet is a exercise in frustration. Trying to move the cursor, format, copy and paste. It's not fun. Pasting a link in the Facebook app doesn't generate a editable preview like it does in a regular browser and many other shortcomings.

I could go on and on. Some of these limitations I put up with on my phone but then my phone fits in my pocket and is always with me. My tablets though, really, I find them pretty useless. There's sole purpose at this point is to once in a while check out some new app someone tells me about. Otherwise mine are unused.

If by developer base you mean market share, Android tablets are selling more than iOS nowadays. Apple is 43.6%, Android over 50%. Nowhere near the huge lead Android has in smartphone market share, but still enough that people going for the biggest market should chose Android: http://money.cnn.com/2013/01/31/technology/mobile/android-ta...

Not really surprising considering competitors like amazon aren't even trying to make a profit on the hardware cost and are selling the things at rock bottom prices. Most business solutions I saw at CES were using Android tablet bases as well now. I guess due to the low price and because you can customize the entire software stack for health care providers or whatever you are targeting.

You should check http://www.squareup.com

I can rattle of examples

1. Field guide for birding

2. Field guide for astronomy

3. Omnifocus

4. Mobile fitness regime

5. Taking notes in class (my wife who lives on her 15" MBPS) used one for a class with iAnnotate. Worked like a dream.

6. Synthesizers. The musical instruments on the iPad are stunningly good

7. As a control surface. I use mine to control Ableton live

8. Notes. I use mine for note taking often

9. Scratching out ideas (I use Paper and a Stylus).

10. And lots of reading research papers and figuring out ideas

11. All my camera manuals stay with me when I go on a photo trip.

Books are one thing where I am all kindle all the time. Long form reading and tablets don't work for me.

Doesn't sound crazy to me. iSSH is one of my favorite iPad apps.