(This blog was uploaded as a newsletter - Tech Thought from FDS on Revue, now reuploaded on here.)
iPad + Mac/PC can have a well-implemented workflow and iPad can be in the position of a sweet point. But Android tablets just can’t, not a chance, yet, period.
Yes, it depends if your workflow is just simple as word processing, and then you probably don’t even need a PC/Mac. But anything that needs to be working independently that’s little related to the professional usage, if iPad can’t, Android’s out either.
It leads to a question that if your users need a tablet to assist your workflow, and how it advances the workflow. If you’re blind to choose, it’s possible to choose a bad one and get suffering from some bad/not-implemented features.
Your next laptop, can’t be an iPad, or any Android tablet. Surface can be an option because it’s convenient to work under the same system.\ But no surface pro x. It’s suck as hell.
And even though, I have tried surface a couple of times, Windows is not managing the UI/Ŭ enough for finger input, it’s better to be used with a keyboard&mouse/trackpad, or a pen.
I have to use an iPad because I(or we) don’t have a general option for the general usages on a tablet. And that's it.
Still, choose what suits you.