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“The No. 1 thing consumers do on tablets is e-mail,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst. “The No. 2 thing is look up stuff on the Web...." Apple loves

“The No. 1 thing consumers do on tablets is e-mail,” said Sarah Rotman Epps, a Forrester analyst. “The No. 2 thing is look up stuff on the Web...." Apple loves to tout sales numbers for the app store but this jibes with my own experience. It's nice to have a healthy stock of third-party apps to choose from but if your core email, web, & fb/twitter apps are solid you're 90% there for most users and can start chopping secondary features and specs to undercut the iPad.

greendestiny 15y ago
I mostly use my Touchpad for email. Some web browsing. Games for the kids. I plan to install android when I can though. All platforms have decent email experiences, web browsing on a tablet is actually highly overrated. Its really native apps that differentiate the experience, and its native apps that can be a joy to use.
- saurik 15y ago
  FWIW, the Touchpad's (WebOS) browser is even worse than the Android browser (even Google often fails to render in it, since they released Google+, yielding horribly hilarious results); if you were using Android or iOS you might not feel the same away about browsing on the tablet being "highly overrated".
  - greendestiny 15y ago
    Could be, I have used other devices. I find most web pages aren't especially easy to interact with on a touch device. Links are too small to touch and mobile versions are made for much smaller devices.
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  - jsnell 15y ago
    'Even worse'? The honeycomb browser is pretty awesome. Fast, renders everything I've seen well, syncs with chrome. The default UI is a little clunky, but enabling the quick thumb controls from the labs option fixes that. Too bad that they're not likely to do another system wide UI rehaul. It'd be great to have the quick controls everywhere. My only complaint is that the browser does crash more often than one would hope.
  - j_col 15y ago
    Except for Flash, which in my eperience is consistently excellent on the Touchpad browser, much better than the browsers on the Android tablets I've tried, and as for iOS, well Flash really isn't an "issue"...

greendestiny 15y ago

I mostly use my Touchpad for email. Some web browsing. Games for the kids. I plan to install android when I can though. All platforms have decent email experiences, web browsing on a tablet is actually highly overrated. Its really native apps that differentiate the experience, and its native apps that can be a joy to use.

saurik 15y ago
FWIW, the Touchpad's (WebOS) browser is even worse than the Android browser (even Google often fails to render in it, since they released Google+, yielding horribly hilarious results); if you were using Android or iOS you might not feel the same away about browsing on the tablet being "highly overrated".
- greendestiny 15y ago
  Could be, I have used other devices. I find most web pages aren't especially easy to interact with on a touch device. Links are too small to touch and mobile versions are made for much smaller devices.
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- jsnell 15y ago
  'Even worse'? The honeycomb browser is pretty awesome. Fast, renders everything I've seen well, syncs with chrome. The default UI is a little clunky, but enabling the quick thumb controls from the labs option fixes that. Too bad that they're not likely to do another system wide UI rehaul. It'd be great to have the quick controls everywhere. My only complaint is that the browser does crash more often than one would hope.
- j_col 15y ago
  Except for Flash, which in my eperience is consistently excellent on the Touchpad browser, much better than the browsers on the Android tablets I've tried, and as for iOS, well Flash really isn't an "issue"...