Babies go gaga for Apple? Not hardly

Not only is directly touching a thing the natural response, the indirect interaction of a mouse or a keyboard (including a phone keyboard) is distinctly _unnatural_. Nothing in nature has that kind of indirect interaction where you touch something here and something over there responds.

Yea, this has absolutely nothing to do with Apple. Well, it is related to Apple in the sense that they invented the intuitive touch interface all touch phones have these days, but besides that, this has nothing to do with Apple as a brand. Touch is of course the intuitive thing to do from the moment a human is able to reach out for anything. The next reaction is often to shove the grabbed thing into your own mouth. I assume that goes regardless of whether the thing is labeled "Apple" or "Samsung".

My niece got an iPhone in her hands from the moment she could hold it and she could use it before she was one year old. She understood pinch to zoom, swipe to move back and forward, click to open, etc., long before she developed language. The touch phone interface is simply so intuitive that humans, especially at a young age, understand it out of being exploratory animals, without needing to learn it. The gestures Apple has patently implemented are that intuitive.

I would agree with any of the parents out here that the devices with touch are just easy for a child to pick up and operate, it's how they are wired. My, now 4 year old, daughter's first word was iPod (we had a classic at the time). She now can unlock my phone (4 digit code and all). She has a folder of a dozen or so learning games, she can find Dora, Blue's Clues and Word World on Netflix, he knows where her movies are too. I think that there are a lot of things going for the touch interface and the UI. 1. Ease of use, natural movement of swiping, etc. 2. Great icons make for quick and easy recognition (high contrast and clear uncluttered icon/logos). 3. Lack of buttons/obstructions for getting to what you really want. There are probably more but those are what came to my mind. My 1 1/2 year old sees the iPad and iPhone as 'the thing that plays the cow movies'. I have honestly watched or listened to Cows Mooing like a million times. I will say that one new 'irk' is that there are iAds in little kid apps. This is troublesome because a child that has not yet developed their fine motor skills will often touch an ad. The xylophone app my daughter was playing has an ad in it which doesn't make sense to me. So developers...remove the ads, I would gladly pay 99 cents for something my daughter can play without fear of her hitting an ad and going online.

Well, that's what apple has done.. it has taken the simplicity of a human/child intuition and presented that in the phone.. so that even baby can just go ahead and touch with his finger and explore.

It's not about Apple making beautiful and intuitive products. It's that babies expect things to happen when you tough an object. Touch devices make them happy, old dinosaur Blackberrys don't.

I have a few apps for my 18 month old son on my iPod touch, but up to now he's been happy just pressing the home button, flicking back between the home screen and the search screen.

He's started to interact with the "In the Night Garden…" app in the last couple of weeks. Between him and his five year old sister, I reckon I'll have to get a new one for myself before long.

I've said this since watching my now 7 yr old Niece and Nephew using my various iOS devices over the years. Touch is a way that a toddler/child interacts and communicates with the world. Apple is just leveraging something that is already wired in humans. Touch!

Not hardly? Is it just me or is that really hard to understand in the title.

My daughter learned completely on her own the gesture to unlock my iPhone at a year and a half, and her older brother learned the same on my previous iPhone at about the same age. She easily scrolls from screen to screen and presses icons for the apps. Touch is probably the most intuitive thing we can do, so it's no surprise that they dropped the BlackBerries. That, and the BlackBerry UI is pretty unintuitive in numerous ways.

Whoa, there are some awful trolls around here.

Chill people.