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by AmVess 645 days ago
I recently bought my little ma a new big ipad. Her first response to it was "holy cats, this is fast!"

She used an A14 Bionic equipped ipad.

She is in her 80's.

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What does she do with it?
My grandma is 80-ish old and she watches youtube, tiktok, reads “google”, does banking, e-shopping (a lot), messengers, puzzles. All that on a serious level.

When she visits friends and tells stories, they always lament that they refused to learn “these computers”. She’s around 6 years into her tablet which I brought her spontaneously. She collected questions (we write everything down as a rule) and I had to find the way to manage the learning complexity at each visit.

Don’t look at age, just go and buy it for them. With a little help they’ll figure it out just fine.

Edit: don’t buy android ofc

Maybe she comments on hackernews.
My elderly mother uses it for iMessage, facebook, surfing the web, some sports apps, and lots of crossword and puzzle apps.