Jim, My 70+ parents are going to order one! :-)
Kevin On Jan 29, 2010, at 1:31 PM, Jim Leftwich wrote:
I'm going to go out on a limb here and make a prediction, based on a few surprising data points I've already gathered and an intuition: The iPad is going to make a big splash with older people. Grandmothers and grandfathers, retired people, older folks that a desktop or laptop has up until now just seemed to be overkill. Elders who may have been amazed by the the iPhones younger folks have shown them, but felt that they either didn't need a phone, it was too small and fiddly, or both. My 88-year-old neighbor who only has a very old mid-1990s computer (that can't effectively connect to modern online experience) excitedly showed me all the news item clippings on the iPad she's collected and suggested that this may just be what she was looking for. Another friend said that his 77-year-old mother surprised him by announcing that she's decided she's going to get one. The simplified nature of iPhone/iPod Touch-scale apps, coupled with the easy to carry around or prop up form factor may indeed be an excellent fit for the lifestyle of older adults. Widgets that are as simple as weather, finance, photos, email, messaging, etc. on the iPhone/iPod Touch are very handy, simple, and useful and the kind of service and information that there's no easy, large-format access to by older people without computers or small mobile devices. The Nintendo Wii surprised a lot of people when it became a hit with older people, and the iPad may be the next device to do the same. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=48704 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... disc...@ixda.org Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
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