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My moms experience with my iPad: Spent a good minute staring at the device once it was on trying to figure out where Firefox was on the screen she was on. Spe
by dolinsky 16y ago
My moms experience with my iPad:
Spent a good minute staring at the device once it was on trying to figure out where Firefox was on the screen she was on.
Spent a good minute, once I told her she needed to use Safari, wondering how she could bring up a keyboard to type the address she wanted into the browser.
Spent a good minute once she was on the sign in screen for gmail trying to figure out how to enter her username/password combo. Then she spent another 30 seconds looking for the enter key.
Once she was inside gmail the delete key took a mentioning, moving to the next page of her inbox was a lesson in futility, and while her fingers are substantially smaller than mine, she couldn't work the checkboxes without selecting the row above or below the one she wanted.
Apps? Apps? Are you kidding me! (trying to do my best Jim Mora impression)
While the iPad is great, and personally I love mine (doesn't hurt that I won it from a Rackspace marketing survey), it has huge way to go before it passes the Mom test.
- Deadsunrise 16y agoSo what? It took her 5 minutes to get to her email the first time she ever used an ipad. Do you really consider that a failure? I'm sure that after learning that the keyboard comes out automatically and having used it for a while she can do it in 30 seconds without having to think about it. I got my parents an ipad about a month ago. My mom has a macbook air and my father an Imac but now they use the ipad much more than the computers. They got it really fast compared to OSX that they still don't understand completely. Also it's normal to not hit what you want the first time you use a touch screen. It even took me some time to get accurate at it.