Harpgliss,

Scattering information is bad, but so is burying information.

On ITT at the moment, all the basic stuff that mainstream users would want to find out about is buried under thread upon thread of far more complex topics that most people simply don't understand.

The tablets have a reputation as being extremely difficult to use and only intended for hackers. That's just not fair, if you only want to use them as advertised they're actually very easy to use, but you wouldn't know that from looking at the technology-heavy topics on ITT.

I did the Internet Tablet School site (link in my signature) totally separately from the maemo Wiki so that casual users would have direct access to the tablet info they needed without having to wade through many pages of advanced topics they don't comprehend. I've had a lot of positive feedback about ITS, so I assume that's an approach people like.



I'm sorry but it most definitely IS ready for those people.

I know this from personal experience, I've seen technophobes who can't cope with PCs magically able to cope with tablets.

Did you read the story of how I got involved in the tablet world in the first place? Here's the link:

http://www.internettablettalk.com/fo...ead.php?t=9674

If you use the tablet for the functions advertised by Nokia it is as easy to use as any mainstream desktop computer, either Windows or Mac or Ubuntu. In fact I'd say it's easier in many ways, as you can see in the story linked to above.

It's not easy to do all the hacking stuff, but it's not easy to do hacking stuff on any computer, and mainstream users don't want to do that kind of thing anyway.


Would you care to provide some kind of link to this roadmap?

Reggie and I e-mailed various people at Nokia about this topic before doing the Tablet Scene site, to ask what their plans were for getting the tablets further into the mainstream. They said they're most definitely trying to make the tablets mainstream products, and would soon be bringing out a new consumer-oriented site aimed at just the audience that Tablet Scene is aimed at.


Try using a Nokia smartphone (which sell approx 60 million units a year, more than all other smartphones combined), then try using a Nokia tablet.

The tablet is by FAR the easier device to use, I mean by a long long way. It's definitely easy enough for ordinary consumers to use. There's a lot of room for improvement, but it's still well over the threshold for ordinary users.


Why?

What built-in consumer-oriented function of the tablets is difficult to use?

Browser, skype, e-mail, all those kinds of things are as easy to use on the tablets as they are on any consumer computing device.