It all depends on what you want to do, I bought an iPad 2 and absolutely love it, but it does not have flash player,runs on safari and no usb ports so it can be a bit limiting. If you need to use for producing reports or loads of typing then a laptop would be better than using the iPad keyboard.
I very rarely use our laptop now because I am normally just browsing the net, when I do any college work I use the laptop, but i much prefer the ipad
Infact I a typing this on it know.
Herald
Ps iPads don't like to be dropped either

Apple for me too, 2 of the lads at work always bang on about how good their samsungs are but always but when they open more than 1 app they crash

Young glow has just got himself an iphone4, hope it swims better than his last two Blackberries.

lI just love my I phone 4s but sari doesn't like my leyther broad accent and gets confused.

Looks like the MS Surface is going to be the biggest threat to Apple. rlhttps://gizmodo.com/surface/rl

I never could justify the cost of an iPad when I have a laptop and smartphone. But i think I may retire the laptop if the price is right...

My biggest gripes about android are:

1) So many different devices, with different sized screens means that it's difficult for developers to make their apps work great on all of them. Also, Android apps designed for tablet screens are too scarce.

2) Software updates. iPhones are guaranteed to receive useful software updates from Apple for 2-3 years, many android devices never receive updates, and many are sold with generations old versions of the software and cannot be upgraded. Around 75% of iPhone users are running the latest major software version. The number of android devices running the latest software version is in single digits.