Comments on: Our Mums are about to join the web

By: John

John — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 19:49:59 +0000

Think you hit the nail on the head with this one, the ipad may open up the internet to a new market who were previously scared of the lump of technology in the corner of their living rooms!

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:02:07 +0000

I can see the ads now… Knitting patterns? There’s an app for that! Also, it automatically triggers the kettle to make a nice cup of tea.

By: Nathalie

Nathalie — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 12:52:18 +0000

One of the first things I said when I saw the presentation is that my mum would love it! We’ve given her a second-hand laptop, and although she’s well able to use her phone and Sat Nav, learning all the OS stuff, figuring out what to do with warning and pop-ups and just navigating her way around it just didn’t do it for her. The iPhone screen is too small and fiddly, so this will be much mor eher thing. And my aunt’s thing. And even my Nanny’s thing.

By: Joe Scanlon

Joe Scanlon — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 19:57:21 +0000

My mum will finally join the web, but it’s more to do with the fact that we can finally get a bit of a 3G o2 signal in the house in Kerry. Finally dial-up is no more.

Will take a look at this thing you speak of in 10 years or so, that’s about how far we are behind here.

By: danger

danger — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 13:26:33 +0000

Sums it up so well

http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1928558

By: danger

danger — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 11:28:28 +0000

Oh, and all mums would be pretty dissapointed that 90% of streaming porn sites would not work.

By: Robert Synnott

Robert Synnott — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 10:05:11 +0000

On Flash: I think it’s perfectly clear at this point that Apple won’t be supporting this, ever, on the iPhoneOS devices. This is not as bad as it seems, because Flash is probably on its way out anyway; its only major application is video, and there are other approaches to that emerging…

On multi-tasking, wait and see what is in iPhone OS 4. I’m quite sure the issue will be dealt with though I think they may decide to be clever about it.

By: GammagOblin

GammagOblin — Fri, 29 Jan 2010 00:15:26 +0000

“Is it open platforms that need an engineer or is it easiest route to get to the web, even if in a “closed” device?”

Microsoft own a patent on this mantra.

By: danger

danger — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 23:47:12 +0000

It’s up to the likes of us to care Damien because we do understand. We can’t send a signal to apple that it’s ok to make locked down computers the norm.

We can’t let our mums get these.

etc: http://lifehacker.com/5458690/the-problem-with-the-apple-ipad

By: lisadom

lisadom — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 21:35:29 +0000

I want my mum to buy me one. xx