You can't carry all of those items along with you, and still have the same convenience. You're not going to talk on your kindle, your not going to read on your iphone (well you can, but it's a very small screen for that), and you're not going to whip out your laptop as you stop at a traffic light or eat lunch at a diner between appointments. Well you can, but the convenience factor is gone in seconds.

You can talk on an iPad, using Google Voice and an earpiece. Basically obsoletes a phone when you carry it.

I'm going to guess you can do the same stuff on an android tablet, as well, but I can't speak from experience.

It's all in your point of view, really.

You are right. Surprisingly the iPhone 6 has handled quite nicely for battery life and the technology it provides. I haven't tried NFC though, that's not my cup of tea.
I love Password Safe, I use that app across every computer and device I own and it rocks.

Comparing an iPad to a surface pro 3 is not apples to apples. One is a tablet, another is a computer in tablet form.
I don't know about a full OS though, it's running Windows for gods sake.

Watching videos not exactly the selling point of an iPad, or an iPhone. Sure they can do it, but it's a small screen.
Either way, it's possible. Hell, most everything I have is converted in one way or another to the format I need anyway, so I'm not sure what the complaint is?
I'm just glad I don't have to plug my $Anything into a Windows machine, on that note. Talk about limiting your choices.

Anything can be jailbreaked if you have full physical access to the operating system and the hardware, Jesus.
It's not rocket surgery.

You're new to the jailbreaking scene, I see.

They're all fords though :(

Actually, the term 'iOS' no matter how its cased, is used as a general term now for most any operating system in an appliance or phone. Yes, Cisco was the first to use it, but IBM was the first to use "PC", and dos used to stand for disk operating system before Microsoft and the Internet. Like it or not, it happens.

Apparently you don't don a prosthetic or your words would be different.

you know it is possible to use an ipad and linux on another system without exploding, right?
even windows too...

It's kind of like a reality conversion layer. It has to be stored in one place to be a tangible currency to be traded with another tangible currency.

Please don't bring that bullshit around here.

If something has a tangible value attached to it, and is being deemed a form of currency, it's property in one form or another.
Let's not try the hippy mentality with something like this. That ranks right up there with saying "pot wants to be free mannnn, give me some".

That's why you don't store your funds you desire to be protected within a bank not insured by FDIC.

written in a language 20 years beyond chic

No, you'd be coding in C.