So our daughters’ Nanna has acquired a second-hand iPhone.<\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Someone said: “Welcome to the 21st century. You now never have to not know something.”<\/p>\n
And her eyes lit up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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