How to make my father buy something on a mobile device?
Last year,
during the fire-sale for one of the tablets I bought one to be given as a gift
for my father. My father is not computer savvy, so despite having a
desktop at home for almost a decade and a laptop for last couple of years, I have
not been able to persuade him to learn and start using the internet. For a kid
to learn and get acquainted with computers and the internet is easy. I have
seen my friend's son, who is not even an year old and gets all excited at the sight of
the iPad. I have seen him interacting with the device and even play a particular
game where he has to crush ants and he loves it. It all comes so naturally to him.
But it does not come that naturally to my father who, at best, is scared of using it. That is what encouraged me to buy a tablet for him; even though I got it at double the price as compared to other lucky ones who got it for around hundred bucks. I thought it would be more easy and intuitive for him as compared to the laptop but honestly, even after the tablet - not much has changed. My father has overcome his initial inhibitions and uses it now and then to Skype with me and to listen to his favorite devotional songs on You-tube but that is all and sums up his use of the tablet. Not because he doesn't want to use it more but due to the fact that there is serious lack of sufficiently good apps on the platform for whatever reasons.
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