No. 9: Apps can be better than applications

It's the 21st century, and Netbooks are still acting like 20th-century laptops in a small body. Though theoretically it's great that any Netbook can install a wide variety of software, most of it is difficult to run on an Atom processor, and useless on a hard-to-read 10- or 11-inch screen. The iPhone's genius was its large collection of tailor-made apps that turn the iPhone into a Swiss army knife of multipurpose usefulness. Though iPad apps may never be as full-fledged as complete applications for Windows, they may be far more targeted and thus far more useful for most people. We'd love to see a Windows Netbook/tablet-targeted app store-type environment.