iPad2 for Grandpa?

Posted by Jeff Lipshaw

This has nothing to do with the legal profession, but it’s my blog, so deal with it.

After signing up for Skype so that I could work with my son at length over the last week, it occurred to me that my completely computer-illiterate 81 year old father, who lives distant from all of his children and grandchildren, should have an iPad2 so that he can video chat and get pictures.  Now we are talking never-turned-on-a-computer, wouldn’t-know-an-icon-from-a-mouse level unfamiliarity.

I’m interested in comments on the following.  When I visit him next month, I will take him to the Apple Store near his house.  I will get a sales person to show him an iPad.  What are the chances that he will take to it successfully enough that we buy one and he is capable of using it on his own?