Re:The problem with Android is choice
by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:18AM
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Did she set it up herself?
Re:The problem with Android is choice
by w1ntermute on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @02:51PM
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There was nothing to "set up", she created a Google account and that was about it. The biggest difficulty she had was learning to type with a QWERTY keyboard, since she had never used a typewriter or computer before. So she instead uses the mazec2 Handwriting Recognition keyboard[0] with a stylus. That's something you definitely could have never done on Apple's locked-down platform.
0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.metamoji.m...
Re:The problem with Android is choice
by 2muchcoffeeman on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @07:31PM
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Wireless? Rejecting/accepting Google Now? Non-gmail email accounts?
I'm trying to think back to when I set up my dad's phone and my own phone. Certainly wasn't 1. Create Google account 2. Done.
I don't think Apple did it any better though. It all sucks in different ways.
Re:The problem with Android is choice
by w1ntermute on Tuesday October 15, 2013 @09:44PM
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> Wireless?
I probably entered this while she was at my house, but she had no problems setting it up after going home.
> Rejecting/accepting Google Now?
Never came up.
> Non-gmail email accounts?
As someone who had never used a computer before, this obviously wasn't an issue either.
My mother bought an Anroid phone and it was a disaster. I used to be an idiot loser who pushed all the nerdy ideologically sound products and solutions on friends and family...when I was 16. When I found out that's what she got I bought her an iPhone and it's been smooth sailing ever since.
That's funny, because my grandma uses Android just fine, even though she had never touched a computer in her life before using Android. Being "familiar with its innards" and having written Android firmware doesn't give you very good insight into how average users interact with the device.