Re: New iPhone 5c

From	Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: New iPhone 5c
Date	2015-09-24 07:32 -0700
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<240920150732116335%michelle@michelle.org> (permalink)
References	<1mb8t1x.5iuv9rznb5viN%peter@pfjames.co.uk> <240920150004203988%michelle@michelle.org> <l9qdnSxS6_I7bZ7LnZ2dnUU7-ScAAAAA@giganews.com>

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In article <l9qdnSxS6_I7bZ7LnZ2dnUU7-ScAAAAA@giganews.com>, Alan Browne
<alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> wrote:

> >> I'm sorry if this is an obvious question, but the elderly do find mobile
> >> phones confusing and I'm no exception to this.
> >
> > No, we do not; I'm about nine weeks from my 73rd birthday, and I don't
> > find it confusing at all, and I'm no exception.
> 
> Exception no.  But you've worked with computers for a good slice of your 
> life, so it's all incremental for you.  To speak for all the elderly 
> ("we") as not finding these things confusing is bold balderdash.

Then his statement that all elderly find these things confusing must
also be balderdash.

Thing is that computers have been in most of our lives for at least 20
years, and for many of us 30 years.  The transition from Mac OS or
Windows to iOS isn't all that difficult.

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New iPhone 5c peter@pfjames.co.uk (Peter James) - 2015-09-24 07:40 +0100
  Re: New iPhone 5c Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-24 00:04 -0700
    Re: New iPhone 5c Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-24 08:46 -0400
      Re: New iPhone 5c Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-24 07:32 -0700
        Re: New iPhone 5c Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-09-24 14:38 +0000
    Re: New iPhone 5c Michael Vilain <vilain@NOspamcop.net> - 2015-09-24 07:20 -0700
      Re: New iPhone 5c Michelle Steiner <michelle@michelle.org> - 2015-09-24 07:35 -0700
        Re: New iPhone 5c Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2015-09-25 06:46 +0000
      Re: New iPhone 5c Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-09-25 08:52 +1200
  Re: New iPhone 5c Your Name <YourName@YourISP.com> - 2015-09-24 19:26 +1200
  Re: New iPhone 5c Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2015-09-24 08:44 -0400

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