My grandma can't even change her batteries when her caller id is broken. There is no way that she is going to be able to work a digital reader. Old people are the ones that are really hurting from papers going digital because they relied on the paper and often read it cover to cover with their surplus amount of free time.
I work in an IT dept and we noticed this the other day when we were pushing out updated for our users. We are instructed to avoid the new browser until we can guarantee that everything we use is compatible with it but with Microsoft making this recent change it is likely that users will upgrade without knowing anyway.
I personally would never pay for youtube videos. The whole beauty of the youtube service is that it is free so anyone can upload their work and people can view without a fee. If they were to start charging a fee I'm sure they would loose a very large amount of their users. I do like the idea of charging for premium higher quality versions of the videos as I think that some universities or companies would subscribe to show a video with more resolution. Another option would be to have advertisements displayed before every video that all users would be forced to watch.
I would use it as a media center for your living room if you have a large LCD or Plasma with a VGA input. You could use it to play all your music and also play downloaded/streamed movies. I find it comes in handy when friends are over and you want to pull up a funny youtube video and of course I always use it for music at parties.
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My grandma can't even change her batteries when her caller id is broken. There is no way that she is going to be able to work a digital reader. Old people are the ones that are really hurting from papers going digital because they relied on the paper and often read it cover to cover with their surplus amount of free time.
I work in an IT dept and we noticed this the other day when we were pushing out updated for our users. We are instructed to avoid the new browser until we can guarantee that everything we use is compatible with it but with Microsoft making this recent change it is likely that users will upgrade without knowing anyway.
I personally would never pay for youtube videos. The whole beauty of the youtube service is that it is free so anyone can upload their work and people can view without a fee. If they were to start charging a fee I'm sure they would loose a very large amount of their users. I do like the idea of charging for premium higher quality versions of the videos as I think that some universities or companies would subscribe to show a video with more resolution. Another option would be to have advertisements displayed before every video that all users would be forced to watch.
I would use it as a media center for your living room if you have a large LCD or Plasma with a VGA input. You could use it to play all your music and also play downloaded/streamed movies. I find it comes in handy when friends are over and you want to pull up a funny youtube video and of course I always use it for music at parties.