> but it feels like kids would rather use a phone or a tablet to do anything. Please define "anything". Mobile devices are basically consumption-only devices.

> but it feels like kids would rather use a phone or a tablet to do anything. Please define "anything". Mobile devices are basically consumption-only devices. Yes there's lots of options to turn 'em into general purpose computers or even do development on them. But they just... aren't it. A RPi otoh is a general purpose computer (and Chromebooks too, for the most part).