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Oddly, this seems like the perfect phone for elders that from my experience have: - dropped the phone into the toilet, on ground cracking the screen, etc. - c
by seltzered_ 4y ago
Oddly, this seems like the perfect phone for elders that from my experience have:
- dropped the phone into the toilet, on ground cracking the screen, etc.
- can't figure out how to end a call.
- get addicted to reading garbage news on their phone instead of trying to use a laptop for thinking about news, writing, organizing instead.
- steve_adams_86 4y agoWe talk a lot about kids and smartphone addiction but yeah, elderly people go crazy for them too. My wife’s parents sit on Facebook just scrolling through photos endlessly. They do have other things they get up to, but I think their screen time is easily 3-4 hours per day. My elderly dad is guilty of too much screen time but he gets my partial endorsement because he’s hacking on Linux and hates the news
- jlkuester7 4y agoPeople, talk to your parents about addition to Kernel hacking before it is too late!
- happyopossum 4y agoNone of those are exclusive, or even more common in elderly people than the general population. Let’s not ascribe negatives to people based on any single factor such as age, sex, or race, ok?
- corrral 4y agoThat kind of thing happens to me all the time. iOS c. version 6 was a refuge from it, mostly, but they've since added so much more stuff to it (and replaced the home button with a gesture) that I find myself doing things by accident on there all the time, too, now. It's much worse for my parents, because when they do something by accident (or when some designed-by-assholes program decides it needs to replace your usual screen with some "helpful" full-screen message about an update, on launch or on trying to take an action) it takes them far longer to figure out what's happening and how to undo it. Often they just give up after a while.
- seltzered_ 4y agofair point, though I'll note my assertion was based on personal observation, frustration, and setting up interventions out of concern.
- tonguez 4y ago“can't figure out how to end a call.” “None of those are exclusive, or even more common in elderly people than the general population.” you’re right, old people are generally just as good with technology as young people. there are no generalizable differences between any groups of humans.
- r3trohack3r 4y agoNot just elders. Im 30 and I’ve long thought about buying a phone that is inconvenient enough to use that I don’t build habits around it - but still has mapping software, gig economy apps, and short-term rental apps to get myself out of a bind in the few cases I need those. This phone is really tempting me. Bonus points that it’s built the way I feel devices should be: rugged. It would go well with my Panasonic Toughbook. Just not super eager to re-enter Google’s ecosystem.
- jmull 4y agoI guess even in 2022 there are still some socially acceptable prejudices to express.