“Here is a one-year-old who believes all media are now touchscreen-enabled. She seems not to understand that a magazine–Marie-Claire, in this example–doesn’t take to pinching or prodding,” Chris Matyszczyk reports for CNET. “The video was posted by Jean-Louis Costanza, George’s lost French cousin (not), currently the CEO at Orange-Vallee, a subsidiary of the France Telecom brand Orange.”
“Many will find it entertaining how she tries to pinch the pages of the magazine. Many will nod sagely on hearing Costanza’s conclusions. The video shows, he declared, that for a child, a magazine ‘has no use and is impossible to understand,'” Matyszczyk reports. “They will nod even more sagely at the video’s last words: ‘Steve Jobs has coded a part of her OS.'”
Matyszczyk writes, “Some might wonder, though, whether one day, she will grow up and wander around Parisian flea markets in search of those ancient artifacts called magazines.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: You can be older than one-year-old and still sometimes find yourself trying to Multi-Touch something that isn’t Multi-Touch enabled.* Steve Jobs has coded a part of all of our OSes.
*Samsung Android smartphone settlers in The Netherlands know the feeling very well.
I will admit that on one occasion I tried to flip from one CD to another on a juke box in a bar by swiping on the glass.
And I didn’t even have my drink on yet.
I did the exact same thing.
Someone should make a jukebox that works that way… 🙂
Touch Tunes jukeboxes work just that way.
http://www.touchtunes.com
I tried to scroll up on an A4 page once …
I’ve done that with a GPS and a camera. Once I took a picture and tried to zoom in to look at photo better.
Thats cute!
If a child that young is already exposed to electronic magazines I can understand why she thinks a printed one would just be a broken iPad
When I’m looking at a shelf full of books, I often find myself looking to the top right corner to enter my “search”.
When this baby is an adult, I wonder what cute thing “next gen” baby will be doing.
Mind controlled devices. It’ll be like the scene In ‘Back to the Future II’ where Elijah Wood gripes about having to use your hands to play the video game.
Thats amazing. Watching that video makes those thick magazine looks so…archaic. 😉
I always believed iPad as magical. Thanks to the iPad and Apps,my daughter who is 2 years old already knows how to write alphabets and count till 50. Last one week she started using a maps app,now she knows all the states with capital cities. Its amazing,how much kids grasp from these devices.
I’ve tried to Command-Z more than one time in my life when not using a computer.
If life had a Command Z, I’d have used it on Oct. 5th at 3pm.
It happens to me all the time.
I’ve tried to multi-touch my vehicle’s touch-screen navigation system countless times.
I’m 40, and must admit from time to time, from moving between my iPhone 4 to iPad 2 so much, then immediately to my MacBook, and realize my MacBook screen is not touch. lol
If I could only do a 4-fingers pinch on my girlfriend and make her vanish when she gets pissed at me 😛
Reminds me so much of my 18 month old grand daughter, who looks for my iPad in the evenings when I get home.
Now that her older brother has discovered mirrored playing of games like Machinarium and World of Goo on the ATV/42″ plasma, there may be trouble….
As an architect who prepares my drawings almost exclusively with a CAD program and has learned to hit “command-S” every minute or two, I do admit that on the extremely rare occasion that I work on old fashioned paper drawings on old fashioned drafting tables, I tend to instinctively try to hit a “command-S” after every couple minutes of manual linework.
Whenever I have to use someone’s Windows laptop I try to two-finger scroll and use gestures on the trackpad…. then remind myself, “oh, yeah, it’s a PC; how can they live with this thing?”
Lol I do that all the time. I cringe every time I have to use postage stamp sized trackpads without multitouch. They’re just so inefficient.
My only question is….who is retarded enough to let their 1 year old at their iPad?
What’s wrong with that?
I have 3 kids (8, 6, 3) and although they get the hand-me down iphones as iPod touches, they don’t get to go near my iPad2… DADDY ONLY! (yes I have sharing issues)
When I was drawing pencil and paper, I’d sometimes try to do a Command-Z to undo a mistake I made drawing.
Everyone’s missing the big point here – the poor kid obviously has been reprieved of picture books also! Surly still a vital part of learning for a child. The parents should be ashamed!
Not really. Paper books are quickly becoming obsolete. Right now we publish in both print and eBook. Soon one will fade away, and you can bet it won’t be the eBook version. When this toddler is 16, not many things will be in paper anymore so she’s just getting a head start on what will be how to obtain knowledge in her world of the future.
The Baby Boomer’s world of paper is on the way out. Our 16 year old hits the web with electronic devices first for info, a library second. 1/3 of his homework or more is already done on line, even his textbooks are on line so the excuse “I forgot my textbook” doesn’t work anymore.
…”the poor kid obviously has been reprieved”…
I’ll assume you wanted to say ‘deprived’.
And the kid likely has NOT. When you buy the iPad, with it you actually get a free ‘picture book’ (the ‘Winnie the Pooh’ e-Book that comes with the iBooks app). The app itself makes is much easier for a parent to buy ‘picture books’ for their child than having to trek down to the bookstore. Obviously, the bookstore trip, browsing, hanging around (and the possible social and developmental value of the experience) may be about the only thing the kid might be deprived of.
I believe the only reason some people argue (very passionately) in favour of a paper book is nostalgia (and the usual resistance to change). If we take a step back and try to look at it unemotionally, from today’s technological perspective, digital distribution is far superior to the physical paper, from every possible angle. In addition to the logistical challenges of procuring paper, printing, binding, packaging, trucking and distributing physical copy for consumption (which pretty much all disappear in digital format), we have the issue of resource consumption (energy, natural resources used in production of paper and printing, cutting, binding and packaging of finished product), and not to mention the volume of pollution (air, water, and by consequence, other resources). The only obstacle to digital distribution (until last year) was the proper medium for delivery of the content in digital format. iPad has showed the way, and others will now follow.
My daughter was doing (and turning in) most of her homework digitally in 5th grade (last year). My younger daughter (currently in the Junior A grade, which is equivalent to Kindergarten in America) has access to 14 iPads in her classroom (one for each child in her class). The school, while among cheaper private schools in the city, is acknowledging the technological shift and is making an effort. Others will surely follow.
Last time we saw a shift in distribution of content was when books replaced scrolls (between 1st – 6th century AD). It took humanity another 15 centuries to devise a better way to create, distribute and store content, but that way is here, and it certainly won’t take 5 centuries for it to replace the old way.
As for that video, people with cellphones will need to learn that video image is horisontal, and not vertical. While you can take a picture from any angle and orientation, there are certain constraints for video. You simply can’t expect people to tilt their head sideways when watching a video (a scene from an Eddie Murphy comedy from the mid- 90’s, “The Distinguished Gentleman” comes to mind).
That pinching hand movement of the 1year old is a common action that all children do. It has to do with limited motor control. All my kids did it when they tried to turn a page, before iPads ever existed. The video is cute, but not really about the iPad…