I am sure I am going to have to walk my hubby through his ipad when it comes also. For some reason even though he is an engineer and uses a computer all day long, computers are not intuitive to him either. He can tell me all about the hardware aspect of it but using it is a whole different deal to him.
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Judith
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On Mar 27, 2011, at 3:54 AM, "David H. Bailey" <dhbailey52@comcast.net> wrote:
> On 3/26/2011 10:59 PM, Jim Saklad wrote:
>>> No computer is intuitive -- just place one in front of a 60 year old who has never used one and see how intuitive either a Windows machine or a Mac is.
>>
>> A lot of naive elderly seem to have no problem whatsoever with an iPad. Ar eyou going to tell me that "it's not a computer"?
>>
> No, but I will tell you it's not a Mac and it's not a Windows machine.
>
> I think Apple may have taken computing to a new level with the iPad - my
> wife is even interested in one now.
>
> But it's hardly intuitive for her -- I've had to to walk her through
> using mine and she still has to ask "What do I do now?" a lot.
>
> I will also say that an iPad, while being a computer, is much less
> capable than either a Windows PC or a Mac.
> --
> David H. Bailey
> dhbailey@davidbaileymusicstudio.com
