[usaar333]

Honestly, for a typical Hacker Newser, not much.

The people I've seen using a tablet most expansively are some combination of:

A. people never fully comfortable with a full laptop (meaning they effectively aren't losing much functionality by switching), in fact are gaining from the simplification of features they never really got

B. People doing field work, where a tablet's weight and form factor is strongly superior to a laptop (lighter, can operate standing up easily, etc.)

C. People who like to surf the web in bad, but find using the form factor of a laptop too awkward and a smartphone screen too small

[wildgift]

D. People afraid of, or who never learned to, install applications on their computer.

[whichdan]

This seems to portray them in a negative light, but I think the lack of installers/uninstallers is wonderful.