On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting(a)redhat.com> wrote:
drago01 (drago01(a)gmail.com) said:
> > The data is noisy but there's a significant minority who do not have
computers, now buying a smart phone. This will grow. They may never end up with a desktop.
Even Apple has disconnected a requirement for having a desktop. My parents are candidates
for replacing their laptop with just an iPad. Maybe 1/4 of the friends I have use a
desktop/laptop once a week or less.
>
> Interesting. People I know just using them (tablets) as "toys" to play
> some causal games, surf the net & read mails. They go back to there
> laptops / desktops to do anything beyond that.
In my experience, that's way more about the interface than anything else.
Take for example a middle schooler - mine uses a laptop. Not because it
runs a desktop OS, not because it runs Fedora, but mainly just because
who on earth wants to write a 5 page essay with an on-screen keyboard.
Which is exactly what I am trying to say as soon as you want to create
content you want a "real device". (keyboard! & interface)
In fact the point of a tablet is the interface which suits specific
use cases very well.
There's really no reason a tablet device with an attachable
keyboard
wouldn't work for her, and the next device she gets might *be* that; the
reason it's a laptop is because it's what we had lying around. (Hooray
for hand me downs!)
Be prepared for complaints then ;)