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Originally Posted by Superlucky
I think it's a defense mechanism. I've had people (especially older people) confide in me that they didn't think they could learn how to operate a computer/cell phone/DVD player/etc. if they tried for a million years. To these people (my grandmother included), the technology is so alien that they can't get their heads around the broad concepts needed to feel confident in attempting to learn how to use it. For some of them, saying that they don't want to learn is their way of suppressing their feelings of inferiority borne of their intuition that they would be incapable of learning even if they tried.
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To further clarify my earlier points.
ALL I was trying to say was those type of cases are more common the further you go up the age demographics. And that's part of why marketing for them focuses on younger demographics--along with younger demographics having more disposable income.
Not that all older people are like that. But the old farts here are touchy!
And I do agree with Steve that a lot of it is that a lot of technology is complicated to use (compared to a Kindle or GPS and other very easy to use things). Which was my other point as I was talking about a Tablet designed for business use, which would inherently need to be reasonably complex to use due to all the tasks it would have to be able to do.