[finid]

But this is new territory, and researchers shouldn't give up just because it doesn't work very well now.

I recall that the iPhone/iPad were preceded by attempts at tablet computing that were very crude in comparison.

Give it a couple of years and see where it leads.

[smitherfield]

The current state of the art in QC is more like Alan Kay's Dynabook paper: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dynabook

i.e. even the "very crude attempts" stage (your Newtons or Palm Pilots) is still science fiction.

[ekianjo]

> I recall that the iPhone/iPad were preceded by attempts at tablet computing that were very crude in comparison.

That's a very poor analogy. Here we are talking about stuff that is not even functional, technology wise.

[finid]

Poor poor analogy, but at least you get the picture.

They are talking 15- and 17-qubit-capable processors today, but are looking at 50-qubit ones in a few years.

[jug]

That sounds right, but also like an argument against commercial availability just yet in my ears.