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>I wonder how many fell into the bucket of "found a computer (not the web) too difficult to use." I'm quite serious.

Absolutely. For years, I've been tech support for my dad. I think it's safe to say that he just never "got" PCs. Icons would move and it would cause confusion. I don't think he ever really grokked the concept of filesystems. In short, he was never really able to understand using a PC at a level where, if something happened that cause things to go off script, he could get what was happening and adapt. And he was genuinely uninterested in going deeper.

I won't say he's embraced the iPad I gave him to the same degree as your mother. I still need to pretty much set things up for him. But he's very comfortable reading the news, playing solitaire, and ordering from Amazon in a way that he never was with a PC.

(A Chromebook might have worked too but he can't really type very well and I suspect the fact that the iPad doesn't look like a PC is probably an element in his being more comfortable with it.)



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