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Originally Posted by hrosvit
Because Grandma wants to run one of thousands of specific programs that have no app in the Apple or Android market. Grandma doesn't need a high end graphics card or HDMI; she needs a device that you can insert a CD or DVD into and install software. Someone needs to come up with that device. (Actually, someone already did; it's a laptop. But we're operating under the assumption that everyone wants a tablet).
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To add to that:
It's 2012 and that grandma may have been programming Cray supercomputers in the 1980s, a retired electrical engineer, or (if you insist upon gender stereotypes) a secretary who used computers throughout her career. Grandma doesn't see modern computers as complex simply because she has used computers that were far more complex.
Or maybe she uses computers because she likes using computers. She may use it to write books, do photography, play some of the more sophisticated games, or maybe even write that next great app for her tablet. Grandma may be getting on in age, she may even gripe about the pains of growing old, but she is just as creative and engaged with the world as she always was.