This is still just anecdotal and not research. Your child learnt the iphone cause she spent more time on it than your pc/laptop.
I don't have an iphone but I have a 2 year daughter. She turns on my computer speakers, and she uses the mouse to click lots of youtube icons on my desktop so she can watch row row row your boat and the like. Be it pc or iphone I don't see how it can be intuitive to them as they have no reference point to go on - it is simply that they are shown it or spend time figuring it out which they do a lot faster than us. Good luck to anyone that buys a IPad for their <5 year old. Sure they will be able to figure it out after a while and have great fun with it - until they drop it, put it on a wet table, stick things in the plugs, spill drink on it, rub food on it, leave it for the baby sister to use as a teething toy. Even for myself these items are just are not rugged enough to use as carry round devices. The convenience of having an IPad lying around my house for use when needed is mitigated by the fact that I have to be careful with it. I cant just leave it lying on my couch. Ill satisfy myself with walking to one of the nice big LCD screens around my house like my tv and using the power of a full computer from there.. cameron From: delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-boun...@delphi.org.nz] On Behalf Of Kyley Harris Sent: Thursday, 28 January 2010 2:43 p.m. To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List Subject: Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT That sounds like a lot of rubbish without reasearch. My Child is 4 now. when she was 2 she learnt to use my iphone to scroll, navigate and take photos. she has learnt to type on my iphone. She is now 4 and can also use the movie and music player.. All of this was through intuitive use of the interface. She can still only just log into her $600 windows XP Laptop, and move the mouse, but she cant do "ANYTHING" Open your mind a bit to the fact that there are DROVES of people out there that dont need/ want or do what you want to do with a computer. I've used my iphone for 2 1/2 years now and the interface is excellent. email is quick and easy and I dont need to goto my computer most of the time. Day to day calendar tasks, and now mapping and getting phone numbers is far easier than a desktop. Most people don't need all the crap a modern desktop provides, or for the 90% of their use would rather have the iphone or tablet and sit at the desk on the Box only for a minimum of use. I have plenty of Laptops, cheap, expensive, large, small. my children cant use any and they are a PIA to open and close all the time to use in a car (as a passenger etc etc) There is and always will be a good use for this kind of technology. My 4 year old will be using that tablet in about 10 minutes flat and happy and productive on it. I will happily use it on the couch for email, and browsing and in bed so that I dont overheat and screw up my laptop and my knees. There is a time and place for every product. Just like I dont have 1 knife in the kitchen I dont expect one computer to do everything for me either. How many people commenting about iPhones and iPads and saying their little cheap laptop is better actually own both? and have used both for considerable time (ie months)? I have.. I've used and owned just about damn near every geek tool there was and wasted a fortune. the iPhone is an exceptional tool, and I think the iPad will be revolutionary.. the Google phone is a piece of junk to use in comparison. On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 2:32 PM, Jolyon Smith <jsm...@deltics.co.nz> wrote: > for a large chunk of the population it could replace > laptop/desktop. Many people just use computers for > web/email and some casual gaming. ... and managing their music collection, organizing/uploading photos, videos etc etc ... If people only wanted a device for the limited things you suggest, then in the days even before email/the web etc were things that people might do at home on a PC, the *home*computer* would never have been supplanted by the IBM PC. As for the iPad itself, anything that requires more than trivial text input (like, emailing, naming/tagging/describing photos etc) is going to be unbearable on an iPad unless you attach a keyboard (sold separately) and a "mount"/stand (also sold separately) to hold it at an angle whist you type, at which point you've negated the mobile appeal and added to the cost. The "middle space" is defined by "devices not adequately equipped for general purpose use, but not small enough to be carried in your pocket or used handheld for decent periods". There *is* a "space" defined by such devices, that's for sure. But is there any real *use* for such devices? At the price point likely to be hit by the iPad, it's not going to be much more expensive to "step-up" to a device that does everything an iPad can *and more*. But yes, the iPad will sell in droves. Just as Avatar has sold a metric bucket-load of tickets despite the overwhelming view being that the story is pedestrian, obvious and in many ways boring, but YOU HAVE TO SEE IT COS IT'S SOOOOOO COOOOOOOOOOOOL !!! WOOT !!!!! Colour me unconvinced. (coming soon the "Google tablet" ... even COOLER THAN AN IPAD!!! Cos it's like, ya know, an iPhone which is like, WAY COOL **AND** IT'S GOOGLE, which is like, ya know, even WAY WAY COOLERER!) (and yes, it'll be WAY COOLER even if, technically, it actually sucks, cos Google don't do evil <pant> <pant> <drool>) _______________________________________________ NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi mailing list Post: delphi@delphi.org.nz Admin: http://delphi.org.nz/mailman/listinfo/delphi Unsubscribe: send an email to delphi-requ...@delphi.org.nz with Subject: unsubscribe -- Kyley Harris Harris Software +64-21-671-821
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