{"id":5005,"date":"2010-03-10T10:37:59","date_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:37:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5005"},"modified":"2010-03-10T10:37:59","modified_gmt":"2010-03-10T15:37:59","slug":"ipad-perfect-for-55","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5005","title":{"rendered":"iPad perfect for 55+?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a title=\"Jorgen's World\" href=\"http:\/\/jorgensworld.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_self\">Jorgen<\/a><\/strong> sent along a <strong><a title=\"iPad for the older set...\" href=\"http:\/\/www.betanews.com\/joewilcox\/article\/Who-should-buy-the-iPad-Hint-People-of-a-certain-age-and-thats-not-you\/1268067325\" target=\"_self\">link<\/a><\/strong> to a <strong>Betanews<\/strong> story that suggests the <strong>Apple iPad<\/strong> is perfect for baby boomers (<strong>55+ years<\/strong>) and older adopters. The author,<strong> Joe Wilcox<\/strong>,\u00c2\u00a0suspects the device&#8217;s multi-functionality yet relative ease-of-use, makes it a perfect fit. It&#8217;s a web browser and shopper, movie, music, email\u00c2\u00a0and reading device that doesn&#8217;t ask a lot from its user.<\/p>\n<p>I think there&#8217;s some truth to the article, though it can be dangerous to\u00c2\u00a0generalize about that particular demographic. (I&#8217;m reminded of the 85-year-old man at a coffee shop I frequent who was\u00c2\u00a0reading an eBook on his iPhone.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jorgen sent along a link to a Betanews story that suggests the Apple iPad is perfect for baby boomers (55+ years) and older adopters. The author, Joe Wilcox,\u00c2\u00a0suspects the device&#8217;s multi-functionality yet relative ease-of-use, makes it a perfect fit. It&#8217;s a web browser and shopper, movie, music, email\u00c2\u00a0and reading device that doesn&#8217;t ask a lot &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/?p=5005\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,8,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5005"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5005\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebookrumors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}