Wouldn't they prefer one or even no taps?
> Have you ever watched an elderly person trying to navigate the complexity of a modern smart phone
Assuming that's a question, then "yes!" It is not at any level designed for what they want to do. The "mother of all demos" talked about children but not seniors. Ever since Engelbart, no one has cared either. Despite the boomers (with boomer cash) ageing out . . .
Children will press things until they figure it out. Adults (moreso as we age) are scared to press things they don't understand.
I have one outlier in my family. He's old, understands less and less about tech. like while ten years ago he was still able to understand how there are multiple Windows open on his laptop belonging to multiple apps, nowadays he starts confusing minimizing and closing apps, can't tell apart wether a program is running or it's just the pinned launch-icon, uses edge, Firefox and chrome interchangably and gets confused.... But at the same time, he still wants to figure everything out himself on both laptop and smartphone which resulted in hilarious mess-ups sometimes. I don't know if it isn't worse than a child. At a certain age a child might still get scared by some of the prompts, I've seen firsthand an 8yo going "oh no this costs money, abort" in panic. I'm not so sure my relative would do that when they think they know what they're doing...
I'm nowhere near 80 or retirement and I have the same sentiment. Add datamining concerns to the list. The modern smart phone can stay off my lawn. I get enough Internet here at my desk.
I think you have the relationship reversed. Supercomputers are closer to Super Nintendos than smartphones.
I've kept with this since, and hope to never need another phone (when this one dies, I'll just get a small camera, or a tablet with a rear camera).
It would actually be nice if they shipped a small phone to get regular developers to care about constrained layouts, and then shipped a Pro Max Tab whatever that was the same proportions, but with everything scaled up.
They also claim to be against waste and ecologically responsible, yet adopt the worst anti-consumer and anti-environment market practices they can get away with. Hell, they invented some.
I even saw some renders of a translucent replacement back for the 5c inspired by the original fruit iMacs[1]. (Shut up and take my money!)
1: https://9to5mac.com/2013/04/03/concept-imagines-low-cost-iph...
Punishment should be being forced to be blindfolded in public for 3 months and should be levied on all senior executives.
I've used an MDM with a kiosk mode for a similar effect. I won't recommend the one I'm currently using because the kiosk launcher crashes every couple of days; still looking for one that works well, and I've tried most of the ones I could find that weren't "call us for pricing"
I don't own a phone that LineageOS supports or I'd try it.
Not everything is an ism. Doro makes phones for people with poor eyesight. Most of those people are old. Glancing at their product catalogue, it doesn't seem much different from what you're doing with Lineage OS. Not everyone will have a geeky son to make a customised Lineage phone. Doro fills a niche. Be thankful someone does.
My father has a Doro handset. I recommended it to him based on a misunderstanding of the advertisement* and have regretted it every since.
The user interface is confusingly designed, with nested menus ten levels deep in which pressing the wrong button can just delete your message, contact etc. without waiting for confirmation. The screen is tiny and low resolution - I have 20/20 eyesight and still can't see what the status icons are supposed to be! It is so awkward to change the ring volume and unclear what mode the phone's in, that my father doesn't trust it not to ring at concerts, so leaves it at home.
All that leads me to the opinion that Doro is just predating on older users and their carers with the idea of being simple and accessible, whilst actually doing absolutely no real UX research. Yet, their 'dumbphones' approach the price of some basic smartphones which have hardware orders of magnitude more powerful.
* This was back when 2G was new, and I incorrectly assumed that it would imply some level of internet capability on any handset new enough to support it. The device in question does not have any internet support.
NFC tags to identify physical objects when one can't read the label are an excellent idea.
https://www.wayaround.com (custom) and https://gototags.com (generic).
There should be law to mandate the UI of any app beyond a userbase of 100M. If you say that would severely restrict apps becoming that big, yeah that would be kind of the point.
It used to feel like being "tech savvy" meant thinking logically as the system designers would have, but now I think it just means being conditioned through years of abuse into knowing the unwritten rules of how to skillfully outmaneuver bullshit interfaces and dark patterns.
I hate how accurate this is, especially on mobile
You'll always need a password and some difficult second factor for your Apple/Google account, but when you've got that sorted, the rest becomes do much easier.
They usually don't even notice that button. And if they do, they certainly don't understand that it needs to be pulled up...
Another big issue is that buttons and input fields are often not clearly recognizable as one.
I'm only in my 40s, still very hands on in tech and I still struggle with some applications. It's gotten to the point where I now loathe most web-based and mobile applications.
No thank you.
There are laws to force architects to make their buildings accessible to people with disabilities, so I don’t see why it would be shocking to force companies that generate revenues from apps with a certain amount of user base to make their apps accessible.
Gross. No thanks.
If you don't like the UI of an app, just use something else for cryin' out loud.
When I visit my bank account online I'm met with full page advertisements for other services from the bank and I have to hunt around to find the tiny gray 'No thanks' text before I can even get to my accounts. And from there, I'm met with constantly changing UI patterns and abstract hieroglyphic icons instead of plain text like it should be.
There are a lot of ways to pay bills. You named one that you happen not to like.
It's like telling a wheelchair user to just use another station or form of transport. If you have global reach, you have global responsibilites. And the end goal wouldn't even be regulated apps - it should simply be too complex to create apps with such a reach. Forcing open protocols instead of proprietary gardens. This is what the messaging interoperability of EU's DMA act is also supporting.
Because there isn't a monopoly on chat apps. What you're asking for sounds like rules for the sake of more rules. I can think of more than half a dozen chat apps offhand: Signal Messenger, Whatsapp iMessage, all manner of IRC clients, Slack, Teams, stock SMS, Discord, Matrix/Element, Telegram, Session, and so on and so on.
We're not talking web search here, the market for chats is diverse and competitive. You got walled gardens, open source, and everything in between with a bunch of different UI's.
It's low effort to implement: just add the appropriate tags if they're not there, throw some i18n at it, then test it on different screen sizes.
This can probably happen on the OS level with some design guidelines.
But on LineageOS you can update through all the updates for the major Android version (mostly ASB fixes and some new features here and there) by clicking a button from the Updater menu, courtesy of Android's A-B dynamic partitioning update system.
https://github.com/LineageOS/android_packages_apps_Seedvault
Poor people can't afford a new phone every two years.
When in your 80's you dont need or want the constant nagging of apps pestering you when all you want to do is text and call your family and friends.
I use abd to delete/disable every unnecessary useless app and leave them with just 3 apps. Text, phone and contacts. No data or wifi either. A dumb smart phone. Much better than the ageist demeaning Doro big button phones.
They are all amazed how beautifully simple the phones are and with just one or two taps they can text or call anyone.
Have you ever watched an elderly person trying to navigate the complexity of a modern smart phone. Not so smart!