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You should get him an iPad or consider it. My grandpa who’s 94 won’t use anything else. That said he’s probably used to the setup now.
by Synaesthesia 8y ago
You should get him an iPad or consider it. My grandpa who’s 94 won’t use anything else.
That said he’s probably used to the setup now.
- turings_ego 8y agoMy family recently got my mother's parents (100 and 98 who live independently) a grandpad. It's a closed network social media, meaning people have to be invited to it. It is designed for old people. They figured out how to navigate it themselves in ten minutes. It can call, video call, and leave mass voicemails. From the children/grandchildren perspective, nothing has changed as it has Facebook and instagram integration, so we dont have to post on it directly.
- sgt 8y agoMy grandmother (100) just phoned me using FaceTime on her iPad. I find this insanely cool. She was born during World War 1, experienced World War 2 and is now able to enjoy modern technology to get in touch with her family. The only issue she has is accidentally touching the screen.
- martimarkov 8y agoThere is a setting for that in iOS. It’s somewhere in accessibility
- bigbugbag 8y agoWow! what a waste of money. Buying expensive hardware and relying on closed software that can only communicate with other expensive devices of the same brand when you can do it from the browser is a really sad reality.
- ghaff 8y agoMy dad never was comfortable with PCs and I’m quite sure that Mac, Linux, whatever wouldn’t have made the slightest bit of difference. He just never got comfortable with the whole mental model. Gave him an iPad. Problem solved.