My iPhone-savvy 2.5 year-old daughter held an iPad for the very first time last night, and it turned out to be an interesting user-interface experiment.
As you can see, after geeking out on my Sutro Tower homescreen, she took right to it — including figuring out how to enlarge some of her favorite iPhone-legacy apps to 2x to display full-size on the iPad screen. If you’re good at understanding kid-speak, you’ll also notice that she immediately saw its potential as a video-display device. She lamented the lack of a camera, and wondered about its potential for playing games.
On the downside, she had the same frustration as many adults, where touching the screen-edge with your thumb while holding the iPad blocks input to all home screen icons. Notice also that she was confused by the splash page for FirstWords Animals, her favorite spelling game: Because the start button looked like a graphic, rather than a conventional button, she couldn’t figure out how to start the game.
Most of all, though, it’s cool to consider that as one of the new Children of Cyberspace, her expectations about computing will be shaped by the fact that she’s growing up in a touchscreen world.
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westyAn actual good and lagitimate use for the ipad !
Just needs to be made more sturdy and allot cheeper and u have a good toy for young kids.
If the I pad was 1/4th its price then it would be a pritty nifty toy/gadget however at its current price its a waist of money that can be spent on far more usfull devices.
Its mental to me that people spend £800 and more on iphones. and seem to think its good value because its "free" on a £35 a month contract for 2 years. I mean £35 a month ! lol i guess its for the same sort of people that like designer clothes.
Strangely becuse Ipad has become so ubicutoise and has such a large market people start developing good software for it and in the end you have good software on the device forcing people to buy something thats overpriced to access it.
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An actual good and lagitimate use for the ipad !
Just needs to be made more sturdy and allot cheeper and u have a good toy for young kids.
If the I pad was 1/4th its price then it would be a pritty nifty toy/gadget however at its current price its a waist of money that can be spent on far more usfull devices.
Its mental to me that people spend £800 and more on iphones. and seem to think its good value because its "free" on a £35 a month contract for 2 years. I mean £35 a month ! lol i guess its for the same sort of people that like designer clothes.
Strangely becuse Ipad has become so ubicutoise and has such a large market people start developing good software for it and in the end you have good software on the device forcing people to buy something thats overpriced to access it.
Now I know why you can't spell. It's not lysdexia, you're just dumb.
£35 a month is great value for a connected media device.
vaporlockDesign it for a two year old and they will come...
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