Still more expensive, still a smaller screen, a smaller and less able keyboard, still no mouse selection (e.g. a quick select these letters, copy and paste, takes much longer on an ipad), and you're now dealing with multiple parts and multiple batteries.

I don't really see the appeal over a Chromebook. iPads I'd love for e.g. reading books, watching course material videos (e.g. the Treehouse app for watching programming videos is wonderful until you get to the coding challenges) etc, but for doing work a keyboard makes the iPad a bit better but it doesn't come close to closing the gap to a Chromebook in my opinion.