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Apple ought to buy thes and use them raw in its advertising.

Yeah, those are cool videos. I wish I had video of my four year old son using MacPaint on the original Macintosh way back when. We were amazed that after only a few minutes, he could draw shapes, fill them with patterns, etc. At the time, that was almost unbelievable. Computers were just too complicated and hard to use for many people, let alone a four year old.

Goes to show how well Apple's engineers can design and how much smarter kids are than people think.

Obviously my little fingers and newborn hand eye coordination makes me more suitable to use the iPhone than you fat fingered clumsy adults.

Of course I'll need glasses at age 5 from staring at the small screen and type.

Another interpretation : Apple's iPhone is so dumbed down even a one year old can use it.

See? It all depends on your perspective.

Try that on a zune. Balmer would use a chair instead if a finger.

Cute picture. The bald head, chubby cheeks, a little drool with a crooked grin. Ballmer?

That's really cool. He just expects it to work like it should work, and it does. If it was a Windows Mobile device, he would have to understand the concept of menus and be able to read.

Jake, ease of use is the ultimate aim of interface design. If you can use something intuitively, without even thinking, you have no barrier to getting stuff done. Apple seems to "get it" better than anyone.

That baby is a frickin' evil genius. That likes cheese.

TMF - That likes cheese. ???? English?

I suppose Zune Tang will come up with some assinine excuse how making this complicated somehow benfits the masses!

After viewing this video perhaps Microsoft will need to change their diaper!

What have I been saying? Apple makes toys. Proprietary toys.

Congratulations, Apple. You've made the first $600 teether with a glossy screen—which is about all it's good for. A baby can gum a Motorola Q for $99, but who would want to do that to something as cool as the Q? It runs Windows Mobile.

Your potential. Our passion.™

JakeTheSnake
No.

Wow, cool kid huh, Historical Event

This is great ..... I don't own an iPhone yet ($$$$ is slim right now)... so I am still using a Samsung Blackjack (Windoze Muddled).... I would bet that a 1 year old couldn't even turn my Blackjack on or off.... let alone find the pictures folder.

There he goes again. It's kinda said to see someone re-arrange the furniture on the Titanic so to speak.

That's nothing, I've seen countless people using Microsoft os phones reduced to crying like babies.

UNACCEPTABLE!

The iphone in the video is NOT running the latest 1.1.1 update with itunes wifi store.

as far as i am concerned this is crap. if its not the latest and greatest then its not real. clearly fake video.

"That likes cheese. ???? English?"

(Cheese is a recurring theme, ron. Listen again.)

> I've seen countless people using Microsoft os phones reduced to crying like babies.

That's awesome!

It was Einstein who said (and I might be parphrasing) that something should be as simple as possible and no simpler.

As opposed to the bofknobs (bunch of f***ing know-nothing bozos) at Microsoft who believe that things should be as complicated as possible and no simpler.

Einstein or Bofknobs? You decide.

Zune Tang
I will take you serious for a moment
lol well done it is a toy, But if you want credibality you need to be a bit more acurate. i.e,
"which is about all it's good for"
Do you not think it is good as web surfing, Music and Videos and a phone?
Really just answer for real.

Zune Tang: "I will take you serious for a moment"


Don't do it. Slowly back away from the keyboard.

Ask the monkey to copy and paste, record video or send an MMS.

get with the programme, Apple.

Zune Tang: Loser says what?

So basically...Ballmer COULD use an iPhone.

Steve Jobs, and the iPhone team , must really feel proud when they see something like this, and they should.

Bet the kid is added to their "beta testing" for new products

iphoneawesome.com,

are you new here?

The baby is just painfully adorable (having one similar age, I'm probably a bit more attuned to it...)!

Anyone who cares to think carefully about what we just saw in this video can understand that this precisely proves the point that Apple is successfully making with its devices. User Interface trumps everything else. Dumbed down interface doesn't mean dumbed down feature set. The intuitiveness of iPhone's UI is obviously beyond anything else out there. It would be very easy to test and prove this by extending the above experiment. Get a group of kids of various ages (1, 2, 3, 4 years), give them a bunch of cellphones (the supposedly good ones, RAZRs, TREOs, expensive Nokias, etc), as well as the iPhone, and try to ask them to figure out how to do things on them. If this video is any indication, and if common sense still exists, it is obvious that the iPhone will blow everything else away.

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

I think that was quoted from Blaise Pascal, but I could be wrong.

Wait till the kids puts it in a toaster

To Anna:

That quote is from Charles Mingus.

http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/c/charles_mingus.html

Ahhh....to be one again.

Peace.

this is true... my friend's 16 month old grabbed the iPhone from me and flipped through the photo album of us all at the baseball game. that's when I knew the phone would be an overwhelming success.

I saw that video shortly after the iPhone's release. It made me try the same with my 1 year and a 4 month old nephew, and you know what, he did the exact same thing, the quick flicks and slow wipes. Pretty funny, but it really does show how intuitive the interface is. Steve was right, the finger is the perfect pointer, no need for styli.

That's great - but there is no way my baby niece is touching my iphone. However, I do hold it so she can look at the pictures with me.

Mactards are mentally 3 years old and they are even proud about it. Suck on Jobs', dumbasses.

I've seen several of these videos on YouTube; every one is cute and amazing(!) at the same time. There's another one of a four-year-old doing the same thing...figuring it out intuitively and enjoying it.

I'm assuming Steve Jobs must have that Charles Mingus quote hanging over the door as Apple employees come in to work everyday.

Peace.
Olmecmystic

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex and more violent. It takes a touch of genius- and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction.
- Einstein

I agree that Apple "gets it" and makes things simpler. But note that this video does not prove that point--we dont know what happened before the video was shot. Maybe that 1 yr old was trained on it and practiced 100 times!? Long shot that this is the case but it is possible.

And now folks, time for "What a full wit would say"

Half wit: "What have I been saying? Apple makes toys. Proprietary toys."
Full Witt: "What have I been saying? The Zune is sh*t, brown brick like sh*t."

Of course the iPhone is a toy, it brings joys to full witted girls and boys. They can learn it quickly and with ease. The Zune takes so much longer to learn...then again potty training usually does.

Our Zune. Your baby's potty training.™

It's even easy to say!
Mom: "Can you say iPhone?"
Kid:"aa-foam"!