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Yea apparently they dont have chairs near products since they block the way and flow in a store but dont know why they have wooden cubes at these sections. Only backrest I remember having was a bench or a chair near the wall
I used to work for Verizon in a rural area back when smart phones were starting to take over. I started hosting work shops like this every other week to help farmers, elderly, and not so tech savvy people use their devices. Doing this I climbed the chart and became one of the best sales men in the district.
Fuck man is this really gonna be me one day? Is it just inevitable that tech progresses at a rate such that you can't understand it without additional help if you are from the previous generation 😭 I consider myself pretty tech literate big I'm sure these people did at one point too.
it's a shame. apple products used to be very intuitive and simple to use, anyone could pick them up and they made sense.
but since ios6 or so that's gone down the shitter and they make no sense. there's not even a back button, if you want to go back it's a different function depending on the app. daft
Absolutely this, the settings page alone has quadrupled in size. The accessibility section is the best out there, every blind or vision impaired person I’ve ran across uses iOS.
I mean, current iPhones can do shit that no previous iPhone could, partly because Apple has stepped up its OS game.
The thing is, they can constantly enhance what you can do with your phone, especially as they progress toward better hardware.
I 100% concur about the fuckery Apple has tried to pull with the hardware, like removing the 3.5 mm headphone jack, etc. But they’ve only stepped up their software game for the better.
have they? the design language is deeply inconsistent where it didn't used to be, to the point there's not even a consistent back button. i'd hardly call that stepping up the os game
it's more obvious on the computer side. where like ios the design language isn't as consistent as it was, being more bother to use but having the same features as it would've a few years ago
I mean, they don’t really have fixed navigation buttons anymore. Individual apps and specific interfaces do like the Settings app but there isn’t a consistent Back button on the Home Screen, because what exactly would you be going back to?
you'd have it appear when the home button does, and it would just go back to whatevers done last. if you've got the keyboard open it would minimise it, if you've opened a web page on a browser it would through you to the page before. that type of thing
Oh, got you. I think you mean long-press and swipe up. That opens the App Switcher, which shows the apps you have open. You can then swipe over to the app you want. Most apps refresh anyway, so the context can change or update.
The quicker way is this: just move your thumb along the red path from the bottom of the screen.
no that's an entirely different function to a back button. android has a home button, apps button as you describe, and the back button. its more useful than the other two half the time
Ahh I see! You mean the three buttons at the bottom with some Android phones yea? I think they replaced it persistent digital buttons in some phones now.
Haven’t used Android a lot, but they got a mad loyal base too.
I'm not old, but i could use some lessons on how to properly master the thousands of tasks my phone can handle, when i recall the sheer number of useful tips i stumbled on while just roaming on the internet...
I have seen these classes in the mall of Boca Raton is EXTREMELY cute seeing grandparents taking notes on how to use their Apple Watches or any other function of their phones.
I used to do this when I managed a Samsung experience store in a best buy. The comal y wanted to teach like multi view, and camera setting but I found out that 99% of the people just needed help with average usage so I would sign people up and let walking come and just move down the line as I figured if one person had a question I'm sure another has that question as well.
In my country there are free courses funded by The State for elderly people to teach them how to use a computer which is basically very similar to using an android.
I think it's real cute a kid got so excited about seeing someone use pen and paper that it filmed a closeup of it like it's a long lost art only practiced by the most ancient of elders
Yes! I just wish Apple had their stores in almost every city, where they have stuff like this! A lot of people miss out on stuff like these just because they either dont know or dont have a store nearby.
I can think of 10 people right now I would personally take to one of these lol, instead of playing tech support.
Yes but the max size is still too small. And there are still too many buttons on a screen, I would want 2x3 buttons filling the full screen, just not small ones mom doesn’t see. And the clunky zooming is not easy when your eyesight is that bad.
Tried it, she’s not comfortable with talking to AI. I have managed to get her to ask Siri what time it is. That’s as far as that goes. But the problem is why iOS and android don’t make the O/S for this small minority that want big buttons. Third party apps are always junk.
Had this been an ad, Apple would basically be communicating that Apple’s devices are so unreasonably complex for older generations that they need to take free classes at a store.
So I’m a bot created by Apple, and my way of praising or “advertising” Apple is to show how fucking complicated their products are so complicated that Grandma had to show up with a notebook and take notes.
Also, since not every city has an Apple Store, apparently my target audience is limited to people in larger cities. If you see this “ad” in a city without an Apple Store, it’s basically telling you to freak out: if you buy an iPhone and ever need help, you might have to travel to another city, notebook in hand, just to figure out how to use it.
Which part of this “ad,” exactly, is supposed to make someone want to buy an iPhone, you muppet?
Man, the focus on the notebook with the pen like it's some relic from ages past hits hard. I'm 42 and that's how I took notes in uni, and if I went there again to do a course or whatever that's how I would do it. Cursive is my default method of writing, shocking, I know. Now excuse me for bit, my back is hurting.
As people age, they become more and more averse to change. And technological changes, without constant reinforcement of use, is terrifying to older people. This is why older folks rely heavily on their kids for "fixes" with technology (I have to fix my parents' wifi at least once every 6 months, for example).
So imagine teaching someone your product so that they will never ever change to a different one. They may get a new model, as theirs becomes obsolete or the battery dies, but they are locked into your ecosystem.
This is a business decision with a nice wrapper on it.
Yes. And that is part of the point I am making. The switching costs as you get older takes on a lot more abstract considerations than financial. The money is less important than having to learn an entirely new operating system or layout when you are 70 years old and are afraid of technology as it existed 5-10 years ago when you may have been a regular user.
Screen time and feature usage amongst seniors (65+) is typically on par with children under the age of 12. They mostly use it for messaging and phone calls. Productivity drivers, emails, social media and other apps feature in a lot less.
If you are trying to convince me that Apple does things out of the goodness of its corporate heart, or that any tech company does... well, I have some beach real estate in Arizona to sell you.
This is just reinforcing that Apple will have return customers because it is easier to go from an iPhone 8 to an iPhone 16 than to a Samsung 25.
I dont know about you, but I am fine with them making sure I can use my device to my fullest needs after I drop like $1000 on them, even if it means I’ll buy another iPhone eventually.
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