drago01 (drago01@xxxxxxxxx) 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. 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!) Sure, I use a laptop for web browsing because it fits my "open 40 tabs to read later and then sequentially go through them" model of working better, but I don't pretend to think that that's a normal mode that people will move to more of. Bill -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
