Terry
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My mother has an iMac that the kids bought her. Troubleshooting is a nightmare (I get the honor). It is all done over the phone with her having no clue and with me trying to explain what to do. She can use her iPhone pretty well (because the home key or hard reset seems to cure any problem she can create). I'm trying to convince her that the iPad is exactly what she would be happiest with. I will say on Saturday when she watched an TV episode on the ABC player she was impressed (much easier to navigate than their website). Now with the bookmark bar on the iPad safari browser I can make it even easier. The other way to simplify things for her is to save certain web pages as icons (like apps) and she can go from the home screen directly to her favorite sites.to me, this is what makes it so brilliant!
i bought a MacBook Air for my parents and they still don't know how to use it... my step-dad has kind of mastered the iPhone, but i don't think he's ever understand switching user accounts... i was trying to work out (long distance) how i could them to use it...
and then it hit me -- if i want them each to be able to check email with no confusion, the iPad is brilliant!
you can poo-poo it all you want, but simplicity can be mighty powerful.