So our daughters’ Nanna has acquired a second-hand iPhone.
She’s always been passionate about education and learning. A teacher by training & trade, we joke that our girls come back from visiting her with five more points of IQ.
The iPhone, however, is taking her a bit of getting used to. Truth be told, her old Samsung dumb-phone really was a UX nightmare, so I understand her wariness of new technology. Typing seems to be what annoys her: she’d developed her own shorthand on the Sammy to get around its appalling text input system, and the iPhone keeps trying to “correct” her.
I think the *aha* moment came at lunch yesterday when she asked whether there would be rain this week. Then looked at her home screen, found & launched Weather for the first time, and read the week’s forecast.
Someone said: “Welcome to the 21st century. You now never have to not know something.”
And her eyes lit up.
