What do we want from tablets?
Here are a few suggestions.
File System Access
In all its simplicity the handling of files in tablets is far from optimal. This has ended in a mishmash of files transferred via iTunes, in the dropbox, photos and videos in the gallery and third-party solutions. The operating system should handle this better.
Better multitasking
This is one of the reasons you can not work effectively on either iOS or Android. It is not as easy to switch between applications. You should be able to constantly switch between applications and copy and paste content easily from one to the other.
No Cables
The first thing the iPad asks for is to be connected to a computer. The iPad would be able to replace the computer completely for many people if it were not for this. As it is now you need a computer to have an iPad.
Flash
The better solution would be HTML5, but right now you miss much on the web if you do not have flash. But we nees flash that works. Flash requires too much of the machine. So even though some small machines supports flash on paper it will stop and/or stutter when you want to use it in the real world. The responsibility rests on both Adobe and those who develop tablets.
Proper updates in the background
Too many applications will begin downloading content when you start them; RSS readers, magazines and other applications that require fresh content are not updated and ready when they start. The same applies to updating applications.
It should be a simple setting where you could tell the device to update itself automatically if certain criteria are met.
Seamless connection to other devices
It is embarrassing for Apple, Microsoft, Google and all the others that we are running around with memory sticks to transfer files between computers. And that you must enter the IP address or be on the same WLAN to quickly dump the images from the iPhone to the iPad.
