On 1/12/05 at 14:57 -0500, Aaron Zinck wrote
> An easy measure of usabilty :- If you gave a squeezebox to your
granny for Christmas would she use it to play music or as a door
stop ?
Not really a good measure of usability, if you ask me. I really don't think
the granny market is going to be a booming market for networked media player
devices no matter how easy they are to use. And my granny would use any
number of things as a doorstop. She would certainly relegate a computer to
doorstop duty yet there are millions of homes with computers. I don't mean
to nitpick because I know and am sympathetic to what you're trying to say,
but I don't really think that granny-acceptance is the level of usability
the squeezebox is shooting for.
1. don't let's be ageist.
2. Assuming that one's granny is not a techie, the real question is
how well she can use it once you have set it up for her, and how
often she phones with problems.
--
Daniel Cohen
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