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They're in their 60's, finally convinced them.

They say things like "This is the same..."

and I'm like

"Ya because that's Firefox, the only program you use..."

"What was Windows even doing for us?"

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[–] sic_semper_tyrannis@lemmy.today 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Great! I've got my Dad on it, just need to get my mom off of her iPad now

[–] CodingCarpenter@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

iPads are solid devices. They're expensive yeah but at least it's not a fucking Windows tablet. And if you need something just downright idiot proof Apple has got your back.

[–] Anticorp@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Somehow iOS confused my technology illiterate mother, but she knows how to use Android.

Because ios/ipados ui is very bad and unintuitive.

To make it look "clean" and "minimalistic" you actual features are hidden behind hidden menus, you need to use the share menu to do basic file operations that are not share related, and they keep adding more unrelated functions either there in the text selection overlay.

The worse is that when something doesn't work you cannot do anything since it should look good, so if an app starts bugging (which can actually happen a lot), you wan't be able to properly see what's happening maybe you can empty cache in their messed up settings where every new app is a new setting tab..., won't be able to pick default app for opening something, you might as well uninstall other apps to select default banking app. Basically every time there's a problem, you will not have possibility to fix it because it's supposed to be problem less, which it isn't

[–] lightsblinken@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

technology related muscle memory? once people learn a thing, its hard to convince them to relearn something new ... especially when you "are just doing the same thing anyway".