The things that keep me from liking tablets are the software-enforced limitations that do not need to be there. Why, for instance, do apps insist on controllin

The things that keep me from liking tablets are the software-enforced limitations that do not need to be there. Why, for instance, do apps insist on controlling the size and layout of everything? There are so many times when a simple pinch-zoom, pane-resize or font-increase setting would make everything easier. It’s certainly possible to do, it’s just that software won’t allow it. That is a huge strike against productivity on tablets; I refuse to be fiddling away in the arbitrary regions of the screen that you have rationed for me, while you waste screen space on things like gigantic sidebars I rarely use. Similarly, only the system gets to decide what “tasks” I may move between, or even see at once. That has never made sense, and decades of bouncing between overlapping windows with complete freedom should not have been thrown out so easily. Worse still, one is usually punished in some way for having the audacity to switch tasks at all! When you switch back, the app might have been killed. If by some miracle the app wasn’t killed, it’s certain to at least lose your focus, fail to save the last thing you typed, or enter any number of other unsatisfying half-states (none of which are “exactly where I left off 10 seconds ago”).