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Originally Posted by lemmy View Post
The IT is quite good at some things but it's not even bad at the everyday things that an ordinary person might want, it doesn't really do them at all - and it's not likely to improve in the near future.
ok... I'd like to point out that it would make the discussion easier if you said what the "things that an ordinary person might want" are -- personally I think there is no "ordinary user", but if I had to guess I would have thought that a typical non-tech user might expect an Internet Tablet to be nice for things like facebook, web forums and gmail. Internet radio and such would be a nice surprise.

For non-techie people the IT would be a frustrating toy rather than a useful object. I like solving problems but even for me, finding ways to do the most everyday things is like an obstacle course. If I gave one to my wife, I doubt she'd give it more than 1/6!
Ok. The list above is actually what my gf uses our tablets for, pretty much every day... People have different expectations, don't assume yours are universal.