> Well no single UI, or any technology really, is going to suit > _everyone_. There is some evidence though, that you are in the > vanishingly small minority on this one, Larry. :-) > > My parents are technopeasants. Their VCR blinked 12:00 for decades. > The entire personal computer revolution swirled around them but they > missed the first four decades of it. So when I delivered the version > one iPad to them on the day that it became available, this represented > the first time that they had had a computer in front of them let alone > actually *use* one. > > Today I exchange email with them, they surf the web for medical > information, lookup the weather and watch the Royal goings-on on > Youtube. (I hope they haven't seen the naked Prince yet!) > > They grumble about the touch display a bit (so I added the keyboard > stand for them), but I'm greatly relieved I never had to teach them > how to use a mouse. > > By the way, my mother is 91, my father 89. >
I have no issue per se with the iPhone or iPad interfaces. I would have been an iPhone early adopter and Apple would have me locked in, probably with both phone and tablet, but for the fact that there was no way I was doing business with the ripoff-artist company known as AT&T. I'm still unsure how that exclusive partnership transpired. What it did was cause me and millions like me to wait, and it gave Google/Android time to catch up enough to have a viable marketable product that now had pent up demand. Millions of potential iPhone customers, had it not been for AT&T, were lost to what would become their primary competitor(s) in the smartphone market. Google/Android and now Samsung. It seems to me Apple didn't play that game quite right. :) Tom C. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
