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In comp.mobile.android, nospam  <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> the comment was that tablets are dead, not specifically linux tablets.

That's only one possible (and narrow and unlikely) reading of it:

Article <00nlhf-u2a.ln1@hergen.dyndns.org> contains:

    > Any news on tablets and Linux?
    The tablet market is almost dead, most manufacturers already left
    the scene.

That's clearly a response to a question about tablets vis-a-vis Linux.

>> People with different eye defects than you or I disagree.
> people with eye defects aren't using tablets either, unless they have a
> braille attachment.

Apparently there's nothing between "perfect vision" and "zero vision"
for you. Monochromacy is an extremely rare form of color-blindness, yet
you see the world in black and white.

> meanwhile, plenty of people read a wide variety of content on phones,
> from webpages to ebooks and much more. a 6.5" phone shows a lot of
> text.

I have seen people use magnifying glasses to read the large print on an
iphone. 

> having a gui doesn't magically give something a touch ui.

No kidding. Having an active market of touch-screen computers that can
run arbitrary software (including the OS) is a good way to get people
working on making nice touch screen UIs for Linux.

> android has a linux kernel, but that's very different than a linux box.
> android apps use android apis, not linux apis.

The API isn't magic. It's one possible way to implement a touch UI.

> a tablet is overkill if all you want to do is pause or restart a print
> job or similar type task.

A 8"x11" touch screen is the ideal form factor to mount on the wall of my
printer room. There is no good space for anything mouse based, but there
is wall space. (And if it sticks out too far, there's no space for that
either.)

>> Apple's hardware is particularly ill-suited for what I want because it
>> is by hardware and software design intended to be a closed system.
> not at all true. what you describe above is trivially done with an ios
> device, although it's still overkill.

It's trivial to get iOS to control two printers, one USB only? Or did
you think I put a complete specification in? 

>> Android is a little better, but has serious obstacles in the way.
> such as?

Hard to do a whole lot until you root the damn thing.

> running windows apps is, mostly because windows phone, and therefore
> touch-ui apps, was a colossal failure.

My need to run anything at all under windows has been tax software one
week per year for about the last five to ten years. (And before you tell
me otherwise, and inform me of tax software for Macs, I'll point out IRS
Form 1041 taxes for estates is and has not been available for even Macs:
https://ttlc.intuit.com/questions/4369986-will-intuit-eventually-offer-turbotax-business-for-mac-or-the-ability-to-file-a-form-1041
)

But given that Intuit has actively lobbied to make US taxes more
complicated, because then people want to use programs like Turbotax, I
actively boycott them and use Taxact for for my tax filing needs.

https://www.vox.com/2016/3/29/11320386/turbotax-boycott-lobbying-tax-filing-season-tax-day-april-15

Elijah
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also wants a greater diversity of phone operating systems

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    Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 08:29 -0500
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        Re: Linux and tablets? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2019-01-23 16:24 -0500
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