[ExI] smartwatch update

[William Flynn Wallace]

I wonder if I would be better off just tossing the phone and the watch and
going Iphone and watch?  My daughter and family, including a 23 yr old
grandson, all use Iphones.  Google is my email guy and the correction
software is far from perfect.  It has gotten better about spelling,
though.  It used to think that some of my words did not belong in the
language.  In any case, Japanese is a difficult language.

bill   thanks

On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:06 PM Dave Sill via extropy-chat <
extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:

> On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 2:40 PM William Flynn Wallace via extropy-chat <
> extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
>
>>
>> There was no instruction as to how to turn it off, or even if you were
>> supposed to, so I bought not one but two manuals for it on Amazon, one
>> marked 'senior'.
>>
>
> Why would you want to turn it off? If you do, just let the battery drain.
>
> If you know:  are they depriving us of any really useful enclosures with
>> tech equipment so we have to buy manuals and such?
>>
>
> No, they're just considered unnecessary.
>
>
>>   If so, this is just shameful treatment of old people.  One manual I
>> bought was clearly written by an Asian whose knowledge of grammar was at
>> best barely sufficient (meaning that it was not correct but you could
>> figure out what he was saying), and at worst incomprehensible.  Where are
>> the English copy editors? Too expensive?  It honestly reminded me of
>> Japanese printer manuals of the 1980s, at the time the most complex writing
>> I ever encountered.
>>
>
> These days I suspect most are done using Google Translate. Writing a good
> manual for a high tech device intended to be used by the elderly is
> extremely difficult, and that's generally not the target demographic.
> Someone could write a Smartwatches for Dummies book, but since Apple
> dominates the market, it'd be Apple Watches for Dummies.
>
> It promises to be a marvelous thing, able to link with my phone and so on.
>> But the learning curve is really rather flat at this point.  Very
>> disappointing.  Will I ever walk with a cane?  Given these pills,
>> probably.  Will I pay someone to learn to use this watch and teach it to
>> me?  Hmm.  At this point, likely.
>>
>
> Find a teenager.
>
> -Dave
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