He said he just wanted to practice characters and it kept asking him other things. (tone, pinyin, etc.) He didn't know he could choose what parts to study.
He didn't like the skritter character font. He didn't like how it took his strokes and snapped them into place one by one. He wanted to write the whole character first. He didn't know there was a setting (write raw squigs) that allowed him to do this.
He purchased a cheap tablet for use with skritter and it didn't work very well. (I don't know what kind he got, something available here in China.)
I explained to him that there were settings which allowed him to customize skritter to his preferences, and he said he'd give it another try....maybe. Later.
Thought you guys might be interested in his experience.