Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
by fortran77 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @12:44PM
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Amazon has a nice suite of services. A phone that has Music, Books, Shopping, Cloud Storage for Photos, and a few key apps (Uber, Lyft, popular games) but somewhat constrained otherwise, would be great for Seniors or people who don't need a high-performance general-purpose computer in their pocket.
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Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
by robocat on Thursday October 03, 2019 @08:10AM
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> would be great for Seniors
How do seniors learn to use devices?
Mostly from peers or mostly from children? If from peers, how do they seed the ability?
I can't see how you could get seniors to start to use a "dumbphone" specific to them, unless the UI was spectacularly easy to use.
Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
by sulkie on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @02:53PM
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Perhaps, but I believe that not being able to install one or two crucial apps (e.g. banking) would be a deal-breaker for a good portion of those people.
Re:Microsoft announces new Surface Duo phone
by scarface74 on Wednesday October 02, 2019 @01:04PM
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How would that be any different than what they tried with the Fire Phone? You can already buy cheap Android phones that can do all of those things using either Google’s services or Amazon services