[DUG] Apple iPad - OT

[Kyley Harris]

This is still just anecdotal and not research.  Your child learnt the iphone
cause she spent more time on it than your pc/laptop.

My daughter has her own asus eee and has had it for 2 years. she uses it
every day. yet the keyboard and mouse open the system to be counter
intuitive to anyone that cannot read. Putting a few things on the screen to
click on doesn't prevent her accidentally wiping your computer by tapping
the wrong keys?

the touch screen and hand movement interface is easy to learn. its
restrictive nature makes it more controllable. Your child accidentally
clicks the mouse on the wrong program in windows and all sorts of bad things
happen and they dont know whats going on. Single app interfaces prevent this
confusion completely. She spent 2 years on the laptop.. she spent about 10
minutes on the iphone.. for 2 years she has watched me type and set up the
computer but she cannot because she cant read. she watches me use the iphone
for a few minutes and the gestures and images are clear and simple to
follow..

it is not annecdotal, and it is research. my brothers children, aged 2 and 3
can also both use an iphone for music etc.. they cannot navigate and use a
computer without supervision. She can login and type her password.. then its
all just guess work with windows if you cant read.

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Xander (GMail) <xandervdm at gmail.com> wrote:

> I think you are misreading my comments.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz [mailto:delphi-bounces at delphi.org.nz]
> On
> Behalf Of Phil Scadden
> Sent: Thursday, January 28, 2010 1:04 PM
> To: NZ Borland Developers Group - Delphi List
> Subject: Re: [DUG] Apple iPad - OT
>
>
> > I think this is precisely the reason why it will be a runaway success (I
> > have an iPhone too and always wanted a bigger screen version of the same)
> >
> Right - so you are carrying this thing around instead of the phone?? I
> doubt it frankly.
>
> > I've been thinking for a while about purchasing an eBook reader, but this
> > makes so much more sense with the browsing and email capabilities
> built-in
> > (and the color screen of course).
> >
> It does? Have you tried reading a book on a laptop? E-Ink is much much
> easier to read.
> > I wonder whether the lack of multi-tasking is such a biggie? I don't miss
> > that on the iPhone and I will be using it as a larger version of an iPod
> > Touch really. If I need multi-tasking I use my laptop.
> >
> So you walk around with iphone, ipad and a laptop? Hmm.
>
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