I would say that tablets mostly are toys. There are a few things you can do
with them that they work well for. The most useful thing I can think of
though is casual viewing of books, documents, movies, video clips, images,
etc. You can't do much real work on them. You can do some communications.
I know there are some special "apps"(that term is lame and should be done
away with. I'd rather we called them programs, like they are and always have
been) that serve this purpose or that but usually it's very limited and is
more of a novelty. I'm sure if you try hard enough you can find someone that
is using it for real work. But it's not as widespread as the marketing folks
would have you think. Tablet and "smartphone"(another term that could
disappear) are just the most recent buzzwords. Well along with virtualization
and "cloud"(don't get me started on that one).
That being said, I would still like to have a tablet for the simple things
mentioned above. I don't NEED one. For the most part I'm doing things that I
couldn't do on a tablet. But if I'm going to get one I'd like it to be
running GNU/Linux and all free software. And again, I get sick of hearing
excuses that "well it's mostly free". The problem is that it will never be
free (in the case of CyanogenMod) because that's not part of what the goals
are. As long as they can customize things and make it work most people are
happy. I'm here because I want free. Not kind of free. Not mostly free. ALL
THE WAY FREE.
