Comments on: Breaking news? http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/breaking-news/ Unofficial Acer Blog Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:21:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Michael Walsh http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/breaking-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1344 Michael Walsh Mon, 18 Feb 2008 11:12:22 +0000 http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/15/breaking-news/#comment-1344 If there's one thing I've learned writing for a multi-national company it's that you're gonna offend someone somewhere whatever name you give a product or service. Old People Tech Inc. Hmm... It could work if we stick by Seth Godin's meatball sundae rules and market it "appropriately" but I can't help thinking of it as a giant, painful thorn in our side. There again I've come up with worse in my time ;-) The idea's great, the content especially... Needs more work. If there’s one thing I’ve learned writing for a multi-national company it’s that you’re gonna offend someone somewhere whatever name you give a product or service.

Old People Tech Inc. Hmm…

It could work if we stick by Seth Godin’s meatball sundae rules and market it “appropriately” but I can’t help thinking of it as a giant, painful thorn in our side. There again I’ve come up with worse in my time ;-)

The idea’s great, the content especially…

Needs more work.

]]> By: Colin Welch http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/breaking-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1343 Colin Welch Mon, 18 Feb 2008 07:33:23 +0000 http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/15/breaking-news/#comment-1343 drink a lot of coffee this morning? lol anyway, i think u have some good ideas. people 60 and up have been notorious for not being able to handle technology. it would be nice to see some things other than the jitterbug cell phone. my mother for example wants to use modern technology but shes still trying to learn how to set her digital watch. lets start a company, old people tech inc. drink a lot of coffee this morning?
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anyway, i think u have some good ideas. people 60 and up have been notorious for not being able to handle technology. it would be nice to see some things other than the jitterbug cell phone. my mother for example wants to use modern technology but shes still trying to learn how to set her digital watch. lets start a company, old people tech inc.

]]> By: Michael Walsh http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/breaking-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1346 Michael Walsh Sun, 17 Feb 2008 21:16:53 +0000 http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/15/breaking-news/#comment-1346 I've got to admit I thought the same thing too, although only for the briefest of moments... I'm wondering if ultraportables are being aimed at the wrong people. You see one and you instantly think "early adopters" ("geeks" to you and me) but has anyone spared a thought for the "late refusers"? My mother could do with something like this too and if Apple can pan and zoom the text of just about anything displayed on the screen, making it the perfect instrument for the sight impaired, I don't see why a whole new ultra-niche market that no-one saw coming couldn't evolve... Whoever did it could let their hair down and call it the "iMouttahere" or "iMback" or stay down to earth and accountable with something safe like "Simple" or "Free". As long as they don't cram it with every damned program in the Microsoft arsenal we could avoid catastrophic product (and heart) failure, inject a surge of energy into an overlooked market and get the elderly out a lot more. My mum would be chuffed to bits. Come to mention it, why not have them preloaded with Google Maps with age- and culture-specific points of interest along with large-print IM type services like a a local form of Twitter where they can meet new friends from their own neck of the woods or a Facebook site for the elderly (without complex plug-ins)? Social networking old-style. ;-) Imagine finding out your nan has just popped out to check out that new bingo hall she found out about through her friends she met on Facebook. Oh yes and she's using the GPS to get there. Sounds crazy? Your daughter's probably doing something very similar with her mobile phone anyway. In a few years mine will too. If the manufacturer was brave enough, they could even design and integrate the software themselves just like those guys in black turtle necks did... Double whammy! Now I know why they keep me as far away as possible from product development meetings ;-) I’ve got to admit I thought the same thing too, although only for the briefest of moments…

I’m wondering if ultraportables are being aimed at the wrong people. You see one and you instantly think “early adopters” (“geeks” to you and me) but has anyone spared a thought for the “late refusers”?

My mother could do with something like this too and if Apple can pan and zoom the text of just about anything displayed on the screen, making it the perfect instrument for the sight impaired, I don’t see why a whole new ultra-niche market that no-one saw coming couldn’t evolve…

Whoever did it could let their hair down and call it the “iMouttahere” or “iMback” or stay down to earth and accountable with something safe like “Simple” or “Free”.

As long as they don’t cram it with every damned program in the Microsoft arsenal we could avoid catastrophic product (and heart) failure, inject a surge of energy into an overlooked market and get the elderly out a lot more.

My mum would be chuffed to bits.

Come to mention it, why not have them preloaded with Google Maps with age- and culture-specific points of interest along with large-print IM type services like a a local form of Twitter where they can meet new friends from their own neck of the woods or a Facebook site for the elderly (without complex plug-ins)?

Social networking old-style. ;-)

Imagine finding out your nan has just popped out to check out that new bingo hall she found out about through her friends she met on Facebook. Oh yes and she’s using the GPS to get there.

Sounds crazy? Your daughter’s probably doing something very similar with her mobile phone anyway. In a few years mine will too.

If the manufacturer was brave enough, they could even design and integrate the software themselves just like those guys in black turtle necks did… Double whammy!

Now I know why they keep me as far away as possible from product development meetings ;-)

]]> By: Colin Welch http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/breaking-news/comment-page-1/#comment-1345 Colin Welch Sun, 17 Feb 2008 17:03:44 +0000 http://www.theacerguy.com/2008/02/15/breaking-news/#comment-1345 id love to get this for my mother. she still uses an old dell in the basement, it be nice to get her out of the dungeon id love to get this for my mother. she still uses an old dell in the basement, it be nice to get her out of the dungeon

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