Uses

Business: Some companies are adopting iPads in their business offices by distributing or making available iPads to employees. Examples of uses in the workplace include attorneys responding to clients, medical professionals accessing health records during patient exams, and managers approving employee requests. It reduce the paper usage.

Education and Healthcare: It has been praised as a valuable tool for homeschooling.The iPad has also been called a revolutionary tool to help children with autism learn how to communicate and socialize more easily. In the healthcare field, iPads and iPhones have been used to help hospitals manage their supply chain.
IN COLOMBIA: I think here the iPad has 50% bad and 50% good usage. Some people only buy it to say: "Yeah! I have an iPad!" and they use it to play, take pictures, film and things like that(entertainment); But other people use it to work, read books, go to the university or study, and that  was the intention of this technological gadget, make easily the movement of a "computer" for workers and students, especially.