"there is a huge, absolutely massive number of people out there that need a simpler computer"
This is a good observation. Anyway, the issue here is, whether that massive number will have some common notion of what the simpler computer actually is.
This is a good observation. Anyway, the issue here is, whether that massive number will have some common notion of what the simpler computer actually is.
So the problem of "simpler browsers" will likely only be solved by solutions that redefine the experience and goal and it will likely be very close to what we now call a smartphone.
For those of us that are computer literate, it's hard to imagine that even basic abstract concepts like email are completely foreign to the majority of the population. I would guess that over half of people don't know how to answer the question, "what do you use for a web browser?".
So you have a blank slate, a free pass to design anything you can imagine. If you can deliver it to these people, and if they don't find it intimidating, or hard to learn, or unpredictable, then they'll like it.