Many people don't buy one because they don't want one, but on any given thread about a problem about a system from some other vendor, there invariably has to be comments made that they should have bought an Apple product, as if they it's automatically assumed that they're too stupid to have bought what they wanted, and need to be educated.
Non-sequitur.
Your argument is not that there is something wrong with the iPad to wit it isn’t doing what someone bought it to do with reasonable expectation that it would.
Your argument is a tautological “it’s a waste of money because it’s a waste of money” coupled with unilateral declarations of “it’s a toy” despite people like yours truly putting it to good productive profitable use.
If people were getting iPads to do X, when it claimed it could do X, but it didn’t do X, and buying Y instead was a good recommendation because Y does X better, then your point would matter. But that’s not the case. You’re mad because other product lines aren’t living up to their claims, when it seems Apple products do - so yeah, saying “shoulda got an Apple” makes sense.
I’m not having a problem with my iPad. To the contrary of the lead post, mine is making me more money in weeks than not buying one would make me in decades. But you justify the bash because other products don’t work when Apples do? WTF?