I dont file system access an issue. If you had Finder on an iPad, that would be a pain, as too much info on a small screen and no mouse or stylus support
But there is file system support in iOS
Finder in OSX
You see the files. OK, you move to the folder say called PDF Magazines. In there you click the folder called Computer Magazine, click that, and choose from the months that are in there.
Goodreader in iOS
Click Goodreader. I am at workn and canno recall the click trail, but Goodreader has all those folders there. Yiou can add folders, move files to folders, rename, etc.
All thyats different is in Goodreader I narrow down to the app that has my pdf files. Its still file system access of a sort, it is still seeing the folders and files and locating the one you want
Now I know not all apps are as structured this way as Goodreader is, thats the issue.
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Yeah I see that. But its a tablet. Its not a case of cartering for basic users, its designed for consumption. I am not a basic user, am I going to use it for power tasks, on a 9.7 screen, with no mouse, no stylus, looking at raoes and columns of a spreadsheet or all my fikles in Finder if Finder was in iOS. No way, the screen is too small. So that takes away 90% of the usefulness on an iPad if it had OSX. It would then be a poor tablet and a still too small full OS, so a poor OSX tablet
I dont have an MBA, but I do have a 15" rMBP. I'd take a MBA 11 or 12 over the iPad any day, even if it had OSX/OSX features