Plenty of people have iPhones or iPads and use them as general-purpose computers. If they don't, it's mostly for ergonomic reasons than software restrictions (m

Plenty of people have iPhones or iPads and use them as general-purpose computers. If they don't, it's mostly for ergonomic reasons than software restrictions (most people probably don't want to sit in front of an 11-inch iPad for 8 hours a day). Maybe the answer is just that most people don't care as much as nerds on HN do.