The problem isn't with the device, it's with the site owners and designers. My Note 2 is more powerful than my laptop and is constrained only by the people in charge of the site. I have no idea why they go out of their way to limit what I can do. It seems to me that it would be less expensive and generally simpler to just have one version of a site with a bit of extra stuff to take care of platform differences.
Remember when everyone thought you had to serve different sites to different browsers? Well, it looks like we have to suffer through that kind of thinking again.
I'm taking the piss of course. But I question why I have to have cut down versions of my favourite apps, and cut down versions of my favourite websites just because I'm using a more mobile device. I admire Apple but only because they've made so much money out of persuading people to pay more for less! By the time we get to the Chromebook, we've got a typical netbook but we've swapped from the reduced function Windows to a reduced function Linux. How is that an improvement?
It's not an improvement, of course. It just makes it more accessible to those who think they should not actually have to learn something in order to get things done. Sadly, that seems to be the vast majority.
Remember when everyone thought you had to serve different sites to different browsers? Well, it looks like we have to suffer through that kind of thinking again.