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Somewhat like the author does, I use my iPhone for this. It's actually surprised me how often this comes in handy. Unlike the author, while I wouldn't mind mo
by Poiesis 17y ago
Somewhat like the author does, I use my iPhone for this. It's actually surprised me how often this comes in handy. Unlike the author, while I wouldn't mind more screen space and easier typing, for the "with kids" situations I'm in I generally need a hand free. So a larger device is right out.
I suppose if I spent more time just hanging out at home that'd be more useful, but I'm usually doing something either at home or out (with the kids).
- joezydeco 17y agoThe moment I pull an iPhone out in front of my kids, it's ripped from my hands by an 18-month-old and that becomes the primary toy for the next 30 minutes. She can unlock it, scramble my home pages, and leave it full of drool and sugar-based crust in a matter of seconds. If this guy thinks a fancy $1000 tablet is going to be that much more usable around kids, he's in for a rude awakening. If Eli already wants to climb all over his laptop, why wouldn't a tablet suffer the same fate?
- jhancock 17y agoWhen my son was 2, he could unlock and enter the passcode to his mom's iPhone. About that time, we had a TV crew at our house filming for a China talk show. He was captured on camera (and broadcast around China) playing Blackjack on the iPhone. Its a remarkably accessible device ;).
- joezydeco 17y agoI agree, the iPhone really has been a remarkable thing in terms of how kids latch onto it. One can probably do a whole human factors study on the affordances of the slide-to-unlock thingy. If only Apple would give us a way to disable the Home button. I could write all kinds of killer little games for the rugrat to play with.