A: No.
I believe that I am, from my experience in pioneering PC’s and the World Wide Net as we have come to use them in the last decennia, uniquely qualified to assert that tablets and smart phones are a Bad Idea.
Do you really enjoy watching your favourite movie on a screen the size of a paperback instead of a big screen, listening to the music you love via earphones so small they reduce all the musician’s work to tinny rhythms, and do you think it’s practical to reduce the big computer manual you can fill with your own helpful notes to a small version on a screen where you can’t even make notes? Tablets and smartphones are all about concessions that you should not make.
These days you can get a great computer with a big screen, and you want to reduce all of that to a souped-up e-reader just for the advantage of portability? Really? Because you’re so important that people should be able to mail you while you’re making your way to the supermarket? Because you want to have a whole library of books at your disposal wherever you go, Which you probably ‘plan to read once you get the time’?
When we worked on the URL technology — and I don’t want to dwell on it but the forward slash character (which I also worked on) was instrumental in that — we imagined a connected world that would deliver quality content that could be enjoyed by those taking the time to take it in with the best means of viewing it. People who would also have the time and means to produce good content for the net.
In retrospect, we shouldn’t have allowed images to appear on the World Wide Net and should have only have allowed text.
So, the short answer to your question, once again, is: No.
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