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Originally Posted by GeneralAntilles View Post
For you. None of my day-to-day usage of the tablets involves running desktop applications, and I believe the same is true for the overwhelming majority of tablet owners.
Please, let's not get into that "I'm more an etalon user that you are" discussion.

For example, the web browser, an archetypical internet tablet aplication is, was and will be a desktop replacement (the failure of WAP demonstrates this clearly) - sites are made for desktop style input, and that is keyboard + mouse (=stylus). While can dance around that with all sorts of zoom and predictive clicking game, the unaided human finger always will be only a surogate input device for it.

If not having a stylus keyboard is such a huge issue, then that's why the hardware keyboard is there. If that really doesn't work for you, then it's not overwhelmingly difficult to add plugins to h-i-m.
We're (or, at least I'm) not talking about stylus keyboards for quite some time now (if fact, if you read back you'll see I never use stylus OSK). It's about stylus, as in high resolution input device to allow for a) precision spatial input -> drawing, writing, sketching and b) navigation and use of complex user interfaces without breaking them up into a million pages.

Canola settings are a personal example for me. It just drives me nuts - it's finger friendly to the point that I can't actually do what I want, with or without stylus. But with media players, at least you have choice. With a web browser, as mentioned above, you don't.
 

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