I use my iPad at least an hour a day before falling asleep, and I am pretty happy with the apps.
The YouTube app seems to be under heavy development, and while they often break little things, they also fix and add stuff quickly. I really enjoy YouTube on the iPad and I spend a lot of time there.
Likewise, the Google Maps app is great on the iPad. Most of what I said for YouTube applies to Google Maps.
Twitter and Tweetdeck work great. They don't change much, but they don't need to.
Twitch seems to be under active development. It works fairly well, and I use it a fair amount.
Kindle and Amazon Instant Video don't change much, but they just work.
The economics are a bit different for indie developers rather than billion-dollar corporations. Much of the revenue on app stores and mobile advertising is associated with F2P games. Many big companies have free apps on iOS to avoid sharing 30% with Apple.
It may seem that indie devs don't matter, but they create new features that are later copied by the ecosystem, e.g. Reading Lists on iOS.
If the economics of iOS apps are closer to that of "content" like music, what does this mean for the users who invest time in learning app workflows and encoding new data? Should users prioritize data export and open-standard formats?
Hopefully iOS8 will make it feasible for apps to reuse existing data formats, instead of reinventing the wheel. This could improve the economics for some productivity categories.
Yes. I don't think I've turned on my Nexus 7 since I got my Nexus 5. The phone is more comfortable to hold and the screen is plenty big for anything from Netflix/Twitch viewing to ebook reading.
I always felt the original iPad 2 was too big and heavy to use comfortably for very long, too. 5"-7" seems like the sweet spot.
Yeah, I've got an iPhone. I use it much more "passively" if that makes sense. Mostly just for listening to music while walking or driving, and for general boredom-thwarting while on the bus or waiting in lines.
But I really like the small screen, or rather, the small form factor. I don't want anything bigger in my daily carry. I'm not too keen on the (well-established) rumors of a larger iPhone. I wasn't even keen on the larger screen on the iPhone 5, but it made up for it by being much thinner and lighter than the 4.
The YouTube app seems to be under heavy development, and while they often break little things, they also fix and add stuff quickly. I really enjoy YouTube on the iPad and I spend a lot of time there.
Likewise, the Google Maps app is great on the iPad. Most of what I said for YouTube applies to Google Maps.
Twitter and Tweetdeck work great. They don't change much, but they don't need to.
Twitch seems to be under active development. It works fairly well, and I use it a fair amount.
Kindle and Amazon Instant Video don't change much, but they just work.