Almost

But if you’re inside Apple’s ecosystem, you still do real work on the Mac. There’s just no comparison. The MacBook keyboard is better. The processor is far more powerful. The connectivity options are vastly better. You can't open your iPad at home, connect it to a 4K monitor and a few terabytes of external storage, connect an external keyboard and mouse to it, and start working.

Even if you’re OK with a more modest iPad-based office setup, you’ll hit a wall now and then. The iPad still shares the iPhone’s DNA. It doesn’t run desktop apps. Many web apps won’t work properly on it. For the majority of users, the iPad just doesn’t have the chops to be the primary productivity machine.

--The iPad is almost good enough for doing real work now. Almost.

I really couldn't disagree with this more. The argument that the iPad is just for consumption is long over, so it's really telling that the article opens with that. But premise I've quoted above is also flawed—it assumes that most users who want to do "serious" work will need a 4K monitor, terabytes of storage, an external keyboard and a mouse. God knows those things helped him craft this incredibly serious article, which never could have been scribbed on an iPad.