At school, they are wildly common. As you can imagine. Digitizing all your work can make searching for it easier. I still can't let go of old pen and paper for that to happen though

I use mine as a reader for my ebook/comic collection and for pulling up recipes when I cook. Buying a whole ass laptop for that would be overkill and my phone screen is too small. Haven't bought a new tablet in a long time though.

They're still super common in the enterprise space. If you leave your house, you've probably interacted with an android tablet based payment kiosk super recently. Several restaurants near me have devices they use for digital signage at every table that are really just android tablets. There's this great sushi place near me that has like 4 different types for signage/payment/ordering and they don't even put them in weird cases to hide that it's a tablet. Most restaurants using door dash/GrubHub/ubereats will likely have an android tablet for it, maybe even a separate one for each. Lots of other uses in spaces where a basic computing device is needed but the expense of an iPad or standard computer doesn't make sense.

Yeah, tablet hype died ages ago, but I think it is handy to have at least one (not the best or more expensive model for sure) at home because it can be handy from time to time.

I had an Internet outage at my gf's place and I could download a lot of shit from my Plex Server to the iPad, something that would have been more annoying to do in the TV or the Mac (or even the phone as I pretty much never use it to watch media).

Also it is quite good as a comic/manga reader (and decent as a book reader).

That is how I see it, I know a lot of people might use it in a more productive way, but for me it is just the backup device that is handy to have (and use in travels too).

It’s weird how everyone knows what an iPad is but they are still a very very small part of the iOS market. I manage a large global app and it hovers around 1-2% of our iOS user base.