I think both quotes work perfectly well. I'm not reading into the first whatever it is you think the second avoids. "much" I personally quantify on the basis

I think both quotes work perfectly well. I'm not reading into the first whatever it is you think the second avoids. "much" I personally quantify on the basis of "things a normal user does at least weekly". If half the things a normal user does weekly can't be reasonably done on the iPad, that's 'much'. If we're down to one or two things, that's not much. "most PC users" I personally define as the people who are primarily concerned with outcomes as opposed to technologies. The kind who don't care whether a device does or doesn't 'do' Flash; they only care when a site they visit doesn't do the things they want it to do. To approximate 'much' and 'most PC users', try this: Suppose you're on vacation for a week. You take the iPad with you to the lounge for happy hour and leave the laptop in the room. (You're on vacation to get away from the corporate concerns that normal users don't have. You're in the lounge to give us a threshold to determine if an outcome is realistically feasible or not.) How many things might you want to do during a week of happy hours, where you'd rather go back to your room to use the laptop, rather than just use the iPad? i.e. If you'd rather go up to use the laptop, then the iPad's capability is moot, because it's too onerous even if it exists. And if the better interface isn't worth the five minute walk, then the iPad 'can' do that task, even if not ideally. Crunching that spreadsheet might be less annoying if you could browse during the process, but if the wait is only a minute or two, you'd probably just grumble about the lack of backgrounding and stay where you were. A more serious spreadsheet might be worth the walk. But how often would those come up? Similarly, you might want some files that are on a USB key. Now, do you just take the key upstairs, or can you get those files with an alternative workflow that is less annoying that going up to the room? (e.g. downloading the files directly to the iPad if they're on a server. Or emailing the person who gave you the key and asking them to email a zip file. or otherwise post them.) If there's a lot of data, or if you keep important stuff on there as a matter of course, then it's probably easier to just run up to the room. But how often are you accessing data that's only on a thumb-drive and inconvenient enough to get another way that you hop on that elevator? etc. The workflow problem is, in my mind, a far more serious problem than a lack of flash or usb mass storage support. It's the unavoidable barrier that prevents the iPad being remotely arguable as suitable as a primary device for any user. Until that's addressed --while still not a toy-- the iPad will forever be a secondary device.