I hate the iPad. I hate what it started.

I don't strictly had tablets as an idea, but the iPad kind of spawned a whole lot of other problems, culturally, and in terms of tech design.

• it made people more often use restrictive, locked down machines as their catch-all devices,
• it made the industry try to make their devices stronger walled gardens once they learned they could get away with it
• it made web design prefer to design for mobile than for desktop,
• it bled into desktop design and oversimplified things to appeal to that market

Apple's design sense for its mobile devices has done and continues to do so much harm to tech at large, because everyone has to follow Apple's footsteps to support their users, or to not lose out potential users by providing similar functions.