IPad 2 is a Comin'

[Squilliam]

dahuman said:

Squilliam said:

Just another anecdote. I have friends with disabilities whom also have lots of friends with disabilities. I have never seen a computer system more easy to use. For instance I know someone who can't use his arms or legs can use an iPad. How can I hate on a device which has introduced computing to such a disadvantaged group? For many of these people the iPad was the first computer they could actually use! They never got to play with a normal PC and yet they pick up the intuitive interface a lot faster.

 Sure the thing has some downsides like no multitasking and maybe it could do with a little more performance. However the former can be dealt with on 4.2 OS which I get bugged about quite requently and the latter is going to be at least partially solved in a couple of months when the iPad 2.0 is released.

I agree with this, I mentioned old people earlier in this thread and they easily fall into this category as well. My mother has been using whatever Windows I'd get for her for the past 10 years and she's still struggling with some of the most simple things in a Windows environment, but I handed her my iPhone and she was playing with it and using it normally in the matter of a few minutes and she's not even that well versed in English. OSX and iOS are simply easier for a lot of people to use, sure, the flexibility is not there, but most people are NOT computer gurus. So if there is USB storage in any future version of an iPad, I'll surely buy her one, because I'm an awesome son.

I believe its because of the abstraction between the mouse and what happens on screen. She doesn't need to think move the mouse to move a pointer to click on an object. Touch screens are more of a direct interface and so is something like the Wiimote. They both require less effort mentally to actually use which makes them more accessible because your actions more directly effect what happens on the screen.

You are an awesome son!