![]() It is not to spy on them with Facebook. It’s so that they can help the oldest among us deal with our gadgets for as long as we need. It is not to watch them run races on YouTube. We want to stay in touch with the young. No, that is not so we can iMessage them. There will be a new pile of gear, newer even than today's IoT sensors, wearable bands (already discontinued!), smart watches, VR headsets, or other soon-to-be ' crapgadgets.' Many of the 12 previous device classes noted above will be made obsolete by their manufacturers – even for tech support – and can’t be sold to anyone on eBay or even Craigslist. One of the comments repeated often is a sigh of relief from someone in the aged 45-70 age range, often a founder of a startup: "Fortunately, when boomers are older seniors, they will bring their technology smarts with them - so it won’t be the same painful process, like learning a second language, so daunting for today’s older/oldest adults." Ah, as my mother would say: 'Rubbish!' The in-home technology situation will be far worse. Why boomers will be technology laggards in their later years. You could have been breathlessly keeping up with the latest technology change, dutifully patching PCs on T uesdays. Pick up a few impenetrable remote control devices, add a handful of wired and wireless chargers, and last, but not least, add a router. Consider the Roku Smart TV (no box) or Roku box, Amazon Echo and Echo Show, Google Home, the Apple HomePod, the new very touchy, er, edgy, Galaxy phone, or one of the RLIs - Really Large iPhones. Then mix into the hardware salad bowl, uh, 'ecosystem', those n ow-aging iPad 2s, old and slow Macs, Windows tablets, or even some (!) virus-laden PCs. You might want this gaggle of gear to do something – not just be configured or upgraded. A smartphone isn't witty enough to know that it is in the room with a Bluetooth-compatible speaker or fitness band and perhaps should be enabled? And not smart enough to turn Bluetooth off when the phone departs the room? But the device is now smart enough to suggest a WiFi network to pick - in fact every time your car passes a location that has WiFi enabled. Consider Bluetooth – it must be turned on so a device can pair with that cool in-room speaker, but turned off to save energy. Consider iMessage – like insider trading, it works well for iPhone execs and phone owners. So many parts, so little integration – it seems vendors compete to death to NOT work together. ![]() Look around a very digital home filled with parallel and incompatible ecosystems – and sigh. Technology gadgets – ecosystem incompatibility.
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