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The strangest thing for me is that my 17 month old seem to pick the interaction with an iPad or Apple TV way more naturally than I could. She's not afraid of ex

The strangest thing for me is that my 17 month old seem to pick the interaction with an iPad or Apple TV way more naturally than I could. She's not afraid of experimenting, and she's not overthinking what's happening or not — and since other children (same age or older) seem to "get it" as fast, I would say they're on something. I'm more weary of the ergonomics of their products : what's good for a toddler (the Apple TV remote for example) may not be the perfect solution for a grown up hand. Likewise, their pen for the iPad Pro seem to be designed for look over function, or their mouse, or... But we'll see.

robotresearcher 11y ago
Right. Kids are not worried about the consequences of screwing everything up. The stakes are too high to mess around with work email or calendaring. You just can't click and see what happens, unfortunately. The brilliance of dropdown menus is the ability to rummage without triggering events.
ThomPete 11y ago
No only that it's also your parent's who know don't have to work through layers of abstraction to understand how to manipulate something. Meet my mom: http://000fff.org/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-at-computers http://000fff.org/anatomy-of-a-noob-why-your-mom-suck-at-com...
- nommm-nommm 11y ago
  My mom once called me up with a computer problem. "My fox fire[sic] isn't working." Turns out her problem was Windows wasn't booting. All she knew was she wanted to get to a website and she couldn't.