Now I remember why I left the iPad the first time

Has been an "interesting" past couple of days as I have had several reminders of why I moved away from the iPad in the first place. I am having an issue where the iPad will no longer talk properly to the one machine I keep iTunes on. Wiping the pad and wiping iTunes and reinstalling has not fixed the issue, and so syncing seems to be terminally broken.

Which wouldn't be so bad, but I am trying to work on an art project where I need to be able to move graphics between programs, as well as back and forth to the PC. I am finding ways to do all this, but I am having to play all sorts of games with filenames and such that I just find beyond ridiculous.

Of course one answer would be to jailbreak, but then I have to wonder if I'm not better off switching back to an Android Tablet where none of this is a concern. It's just frustrating that even though Apple is put forward as the company that "gets" it's audience, that it can still miss in such a big fashion.

In the meantime, there are a few weeks before I have to put money behind my decision, and maybe something will come along that will make me feel more sold that there is a "right" answer after all. I did briefly consider even going back to a laptop, but for several reasons I really (!) need both the long battery life and the ability to easily move back and forth from landscape to portrait that a tablet still has over most laptops out there.