I agree with your second point, that's the same feeling I got out of the article: "Look! A new market to exploit with your trivial webapps!". There are a lot of

I agree with your second point, that's the same feeling I got out of the article: "Look! A new market to exploit with your trivial webapps!". There are a lot of problems with this statement, first being that it's not an ideal target for capitalist/consumerist business cases. These people do not have large amounts of disposable income to waste on crap. Honestly this seems like a largely American issue with their bias against socialist policies. The govt can step in here and improve things for this class of people, but the whole idea of that is untenable to (apparently) the majority of Americans. I wonder how long it will take for the stink of desperation to become unbearable to the middle/upper class.