On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 6:57 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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. 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 ;) -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
