- The lack of user facing filesystem means I have to jump through wierd hoops when doing simple stuff like managing my pdfs. An example, I get a pdf and open it in iBooks. A few months further on, I want to read it again and do some annotations, but I need another app for that. Well tough luck, i cannot open the pdf in the other app, since the pdf is tied to iBooks. If i'm lucky, maybe i'll remember i got it via a particular email, and resend it to the other reader. Most probably though, no annotations for me on that pdf.
- I have a network drive and would like to stream movies from it using VLC (due to native player not supporting the encoding). I also have a filebrowser app that can do smb. But there is no way to connect the two. I can either download the whole movie and send it to VLC (which takes a long time and space on my iPad) or try to look for a video player that does smb :S.
I could go on and on with such examples. IPad is obviously a beautifully designed and built device but I would definitely not purchase another one or recommend it to a friend, exactly because of the shortcomings of iOS.