tablets are gonna be called 'slate' in near future. Extremely light and futuristic.
Back to the Present, iPad tabs, basically everything apple are for less geeky ppl.
Accept the fact, research centers and mech probes use their own version of unix or windows or some other machine languages.
Apple computers are there for graphics and some video processing for a while but when it comes to phone,
their now redundant interface is just good for people with no tech know-how or to say, who wants everything easy at the push of click.
That's how it started, they dumbify you :D But if you are thriving geek within, you feel like you are in a jail/prison while using those devices, because you want to do more but they(apple) don't let you do, they didn't just name the whole hiccups as 'jailbreak' just like that.
So, before jumping on the conclusion without actually using other non-apple products and referring names is nothing but plain stupid and if you apple fanboys shows the attitude like that, you'll just add yourself into the numbers of dumbers list.
Don't mean to be rude and no offense.
Whoever mentioned Nexus, it's a great device. Apple devices will always remain under my boot and forever.