Exactly. These devices are highly consumer-based, market-driven, 'dumb terminals' if I may make a bad comparision. For starters you'd do well with a keyboard. perhaps a visual display that is purposed more than a glorified game&watch. Each time these new no-keyboard in-your-pocket computers come out, I faintly consider actually buying one - then realise I'd rather be creating using machines that are built to create. This whole mess of mass consumer devices reminds me more of fingerpainting in pre-school than anything else on the 'creation' side of things.
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Exactly. These devices are highly consumer-based, market-driven, 'dumb terminals' if I may make a bad comparision. For starters you'd do well with a keyboard. perhaps a visual display that is purposed more than a glorified game&watch. Each time these new no-keyboard in-your-pocket computers come out, I faintly consider actually buying one - then realise I'd rather be creating using machines that are built to create. This whole mess of mass consumer devices reminds me more of fingerpainting in pre-school than anything else on the 'creation' side of things.