Comment by samatman

I don't know why someone would mock that in the first place. Surely a starship with a built in matter replicator would use as many tablets as they found convenient.

Owning like six iPads wouldn't be a good use of the resources that would represent for me, personally. But I could do useful things with them, and if I could politely request a magic box to give me one, I'd have at least six around already.