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Yes, and this is also why my "super senior" mother owns an iPhone. Sometimes a walled garden is a good thing. If you want a more open system, there are other op
by whyenot 3y ago
Yes, and this is also why my "super senior" mother owns an iPhone. Sometimes a walled garden is a good thing. If you want a more open system, there are other options. Please don't destroy something that is actually useful to a lot of people just because it doesn't coincide with your own desires or needs.
- grogenaut 3y agoMy mom who now has dementia couldn't figure out how to use her iPhone but could totally use a Mac. The Mac doesn't really have a walled garden and I'm pretty sure you're using correlation not causation. I'm very sure that a Walt garden doesn't make a thing actually easier to use. It's just what you're familiar with and willing to teach your mom to use.
- throwaway290 3y agoMy mom can use an iphone easily, mac not so much but that's because of her history with windows. I think her mac almost certainly has malware. it's an older one and it probably doesn't support the latest OS anyway sadly.
- howinteresting 3y agoThis is a non-sequitur. Apple can easily add a "super senior" mode to an iPhone while still keeping the rest of the platform open.
- zuminator 3y agoOr to flip that around, they could keep the walled garden but allow the user to spin up a virtualized environment completely walled off from the main OS, and run compilers and other software without risk to the phone side. Then the author could install a Jornada emulator or a full Linux distro.
- Gigachad 3y agoProblem is that the tech support scammer walks grandma through the process of turning off senior mode and installing malware.
- howinteresting 3y agoI don't know, this can be solved with a parental controls equivalent. If Apple really put its heart in it it could solve all of these issues. But it wouldn't benefit Apple to solve them.
- wiseowise 3y agoWon’t someone think about elderly?!