They’re not, my roommate had to be taught, by me, how to use his iPod Nano, and it’s simpler. He still doesn’t know how to use it’s camera. Some people just can’t relate to technology, I don’t know why, it’s possibly genetic – though ironically his father is very much into gadgets, ever since his days as an audiophile with stereo systems in the 60s and 70s. (He has his house wired up for ethernet in several rooms, for example, and he’s probably in his 70s!)
I hope that wasn’t confusing, where I used “60s and 70s” both for years, and in the latter case, for age. 🙂
I’ve never tried to use a Nano, but the iPod Touch is just about the easiest-to-use device I’ve ever seen. Want to use the camera? Press the icon that looks like a camera, which for some strange reason is also labeled “camera.” If you really need a book to spell that out, and tell you how to take a picture once in the application, then you shouldn’t be using anything more high-tech than a jumbo crayon.
(My six-year-old nephew had no problem navigating my first-generation Touch. After playing with it for a few minutes, he was easily able to navigate around it. Granted that he was smarter than the average six-year-old, but any adult should really be able to keep up with him.)
Maybe he’d figure out how to use the camera on that one, he had the most problems figuring out stuff like how to get music on it, and how to manage the music once he had it available.
They’re not, my roommate had to be taught, by me, how to use his iPod Nano, and it’s simpler. He still doesn’t know how to use it’s camera. Some people just can’t relate to technology, I don’t know why, it’s possibly genetic – though ironically his father is very much into gadgets, ever since his days as an audiophile with stereo systems in the 60s and 70s. (He has his house wired up for ethernet in several rooms, for example, and he’s probably in his 70s!)
I hope that wasn’t confusing, where I used “60s and 70s” both for years, and in the latter case, for age. 🙂
I’ve never tried to use a Nano, but the iPod Touch is just about the easiest-to-use device I’ve ever seen. Want to use the camera? Press the icon that looks like a camera, which for some strange reason is also labeled “camera.” If you really need a book to spell that out, and tell you how to take a picture once in the application, then you shouldn’t be using anything more high-tech than a jumbo crayon.
(My six-year-old nephew had no problem navigating my first-generation Touch. After playing with it for a few minutes, he was easily able to navigate around it. Granted that he was smarter than the average six-year-old, but any adult should really be able to keep up with him.)
Maybe he’d figure out how to use the camera on that one, he had the most problems figuring out stuff like how to get music on it, and how to manage the music once he had it available.