1)You make a lot of assumptions about me, my age, and my technical ability.
2)Somehow you assume I have a 5 year old neice and that she can use an iPad better than me (and define "better" please). I have an iPad and I use it here and there. I also had an iPhone 3GS years ago and now a 4S and also an iPod Touch. Ya think with all these iOS devices I've had for the past 4+ years that maybe, just maybe I know how to use the devices quite well?
3)Generation gap. Righhhhhht
Not sure what boat you came in on but you're extremely insulting.
Go ahead and pat yourself on the back for knowing everything about me. Boy, you're just so right about everything I can only stop in awe of your brainpower.
You offer nothing to these discussions/debates with comments like above. In a face-to-face debate you would be laughed off the stage within seconds.
Keep up the great mind-reading abilities.
Wow. First, let me say my intent was not to be insulting. Thus, why I inserted that I was not being rude a few times in there prefacing what I was saying so that you could comprehend that wasn't the intent or tone. However, I can't do anything about you reading comprehension or thin skin.
Unlike your direct attempt to be nasty, I merely compared and contrasted your concerns with real life examples and facts. I also never said you had a 5 year old niece. I was referring to my own (which I will admit perhaps I could have been more clear about), but in the English language you can generalize a statement for emphasis.
This is 2012. Children's abilities with technologies put adults to shame every day. I'm sorry you need to behave like a child and can't see that, or understand when someone says, "I'm not being rude... it's true... insert generalized statement." Kids almost seem to fall out of the womb with a mouse in their hand these days. (That's called an expression. No I don't mean that literally children are born with mice. I just need to be more clear with you apparently.)
Also, no one called into question your technical abilities. However, I will now after your reply. In your original post, you cite
"I think the demo is not that impressive...all the repeated hand gestures and pinches. Sure, he may "get used to it" but I find the example video pretty poor on ease of use."
Since you state you've owned several IOS devices, if you think they are not easy to use, I don't know what to tell you. (Pinch to zoom? Double tapping the screen to activate media?) We've all (except apparently you) see e-books a million times, as well as the publishers who make ebooks that this presentation was for. They didn't need to see ebooks, they needed to see how to turn up the volume on them. This is another example of audience appropriate. You are not that audience, and this is also why you had no understanding of it and had the concerns you did. Again, a five year old can pick these devices up and use them in minutes without any problems. The demographic for this was education in K-12... you know, starting out with 5 year olds. Are you a five year old going to in school that might be the demographic for iPad e-text books?
I don't claim to know your age, but while you act like a grade school kid, unless you've been in an elementary school in the past 10 years, I don't care if you are 20 or 60. There is an obvious age gap. Seniors graduating high school this year would probably not recognize the classrooms from their elementary schools anymore. It's a fact.
Also, while I don't know your age, this is again where reading comprehension comes into play. If you were younger, I doubt you would have been comparing this to Microsoft Encarta... a product that hasn't been made in the past decade, and citing the 1997 edition. The fact that you cited Encarta at all shows it's an age gap issue. And hey, there is nothing wrong with that. Most of us fall into that category. Most of us were lucky if we had 10 computers in the entire school in elementary.
As for your technical ability, I'm not seeing what that has to do with anything? Please show me where I said anything about your technical ability in ANY fashion. Wait, you can't because I didn't.
However, you obviously have NEVER used an e-reader or read an e-book. If you had, the majority of the things you commented on wouldn't have been said. Seriously. You were citing that you can't put a book mark in an ebook! You realize that only 20% of people are using e-books? That has nothing to do with technical ability. One can have a very high tech ability, but does that mean they should understand Photoshop? Should a photographer know how to use People Soft? Of course not! WHICH IS WHY... I suggested you download iBooks and a sample book to see how it works. I'm sorry, did that hurt your feelings and come off as condescending? I personally, if I'd not used it before, would say, "Hey, l'll check it out." If anything, you should have walked away knowing a lot of stuff you didn't know before.
You also moaned about dying batteries, hardware failures, updates... not even knowing that Apple has had a system in place within schools for iPads now for almost 3 years addressing every single item of concern.
I also stated that not everyone has read and followed Apple's education programs. You obviously didn't know much of anything... because if you did... yet again, you wouldn't have needed to write your post. If I were trying to make you feel dumb, I don't think I'd be calling out the fact that not everyone is aware or has read such articles of information. That also invites you to fact check me or anyone else reading. You weren't the only one who was unfamiliar.
As for a face to face debate, you made my day with that comment. Debates require 3 things: knowledge, understanding of the english language to communicate, and the ability to convey things so that a very general audience can understand them because you don't know their level of education or expertise. That's exactly what I did, and exactly what you did not do. If this were a debate, which online forums often become, why is it that you can't refute a single thing I said?
If this post comes off as insulting, sorry.
