I'm working on a book, and wanted to do some editing and writing when I went on holiday a couple of weeks ago so I took my iPad and a bluetooth keyboard with me.
Whole experience convinced me that if I was do do it again I'd get something like a Chromebook or Netbook.
There's no real way to drive the iPad using only a keyboard and you have to reach for the screen too many times e.g. flicking between document being edited and a reference PDF or presentation.
Pages on the iPad has some really weird quirks that I've not got to the bottom of e.g. copy some text from a table cell, paste it into the document elsewhere and it's still a table cell with no way to remove the formatting - eventually copied it all out an stuck with markdown (but need to port it back at some point).
Android has a few nice keyboard shortcuts baked in, including a basic alt-tab app switching menu.
Shame Apple can't see clear to adding some basic features like that for keyboard users, who while admittedly are a minority would really love to have some functionality like that.
I've never tried the bluetooth keyboard with my Nexus 4 or the wife's Nexus 7 so will have to give it a go.
I could just about cope with the differences between Android 2.x and iOS but since I've moved to Android 4.x I find iOS so frustrating to use so next tablet will probably be the new Nexus 7
Whole experience convinced me that if I was do do it again I'd get something like a Chromebook or Netbook.
There's no real way to drive the iPad using only a keyboard and you have to reach for the screen too many times e.g. flicking between document being edited and a reference PDF or presentation.
Pages on the iPad has some really weird quirks that I've not got to the bottom of e.g. copy some text from a table cell, paste it into the document elsewhere and it's still a table cell with no way to remove the formatting - eventually copied it all out an stuck with markdown (but need to port it back at some point).