Outside of certain kinds of work, but especially as an every day sort of casual home computer? It actually works great already. And with the new stuff in iOS 11 it will be even better.
You have to try it for a while to get used to it and sort of understand how to do it since it's slightly different… But it works SURPRISINGLY well. And the amazing size/weight/battery life of an iPad as well as the cost relative to most Apple laptops makes it attractive.
Yeah, but it's become clear that the PC isn't going anywhere at this point, and why should it, given the miserable experience of trying to do real work on a tablet?
I'm not hostile to iPads per se, but I think at this point we have to acknowledge that the supposed revolution where people would never buy PCs anymore because of tablets never materialized. It's another category with a somewhat narrower niche and it works great for some tasks, but not for others.
Also, phablets have eaten into some of the demand for them.
You have to try it for a while to get used to it and sort of understand how to do it since it's slightly different… But it works SURPRISINGLY well. And the amazing size/weight/battery life of an iPad as well as the cost relative to most Apple laptops makes it attractive.