Not everybody who owns an iPad has or uses a hardware keyboard. I think most people don't have one, and of those who do, many may hardly use it. I have a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but I really hardly use it. I bought it once for a longer vacation where I just wanted to bring the iPad but needed to be able to quickly respond to mails. In the end, I didn't even use it much during the vacation.
What kind of apps, except for text processing like word, number processing like excel, programming editors, or scientific like mathmatica are you thinking about? I think these are the categories where keyboards are really necessary for iPad, but for all others, I think touch input may be the better option (I'll probably have forgotten a couple of niche categories, like music trackers).
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Not everybody who owns an iPad has or uses a hardware keyboard. I think most people don't have one, and of those who do, many may hardly use it. I have a bluetooth keyboard for my iPad, but I really hardly use it. I bought it once for a longer vacation where I just wanted to bring the iPad but needed to be able to quickly respond to mails. In the end, I didn't even use it much during the vacation.
What kind of apps, except for text processing like word, number processing like excel, programming editors, or scientific like mathmatica are you thinking about? I think these are the categories where keyboards are really necessary for iPad, but for all others, I think touch input may be the better option (I'll probably have forgotten a couple of niche categories, like music trackers).
Yes, not everybody has a hardware keyboard, but at some point
I'm interested in getting some kind of OOM answer to that equation.Well for example, here I am, at this moment, typing a comment to you on an iPad with a hardware keyboard.
But to answer your question: heavy email, threaded discussion, bug reporting, data entry (e.g. invoices, grades, tracking numbers, door-to-door, consumer surveys, medical coding, pilot logbook, etc), inventory management, insurance adjusters, real estate listings, pro-grade eBay/Craigslist tools, non-casual games (e.g. Starcraft, Half-Life, etc.), Quicken, MSProject, TurboTax ...