I keep seeing comments like this posted in this article, and maybe I'm just being defensive; but I kind of think that's a dangerously dismissive point of view.

I keep seeing comments like this posted in this article, and maybe I'm just being defensive; but I kind of think that's a dangerously dismissive point of view. I think developers have been creating applications long before they had "large screens, efficient processing and multi tasking". I won't argue that these things make development easier, but they are certainly not a requirement. Every day I hear about people using these devices for creating content, and every day the trope about them only being for "consuming information" seems more and more absurd.