Voice first – and voice everywhere. You may be hearing it – will 50% of all searches soon (2020) be by voice? Makes you shudder thinking about restaurants and airport gates. In fact, voice interactions are already all around us. Although estimates vary widely, consider the 18.8 million Amazon Echo and 15.7 million Google Home devices possibly sold. Or count Siri listening on the 85 million iPhones or 107 million Android phones all listening if you enable them -- and use the appropriate wake word for the device (Hey! Okay! Hello! Etc.) – and aren’t misunderstood or have all of your devices saying “I didn’t understand that” at the same time.
Gadget-y spam rules the day. One day in September, Amazon announced six gadgets in a day – a week before Google had its four gadgets moment, all before Apple grabbed all the media attention with the iPhone X (Ten) announcement and the iOS upgrade. That in turn preceded the recent super-compelling announcement of dozens of new emojis -- attach a broccoli? hedgehog? sled? Wow-- ever-briefer messages can skip having words. And even a new category for the iPhone X called an ‘animoji’ in which the image is actually an animated video of you, taken with the face-facing camera on the phone (that also doubles as the phone sign-on mechanism.) Wow, a text message from a family member that beats the snapshot of standing in front of a landmark. Now it can be a video of you walking toward the landmark, walking away from it, and other even-more riveting visuals. The smartphone purchase decision – it must be very stressful.
Typing is so over – Emojis have their own encyclopedia. Did you know that there is a website called emojipedia.org? Seriously, and that Samsung’s Galaxy S8, out in April came with 2448? But iOS 11’s release, including the 240 new ones, has a total of 2613. And that there’s a history of their use, ramping up in 2005. Surveyed millennials were most likely say that they express their thoughts better than words. Although that characteristic may not be all that appealing to their employers.
Our devices, our older adult selves – what happened to words? So we are speaking our queries to our devices, texting with friends and co-workers with emojis and overwhelmed by auto-play videos in Facebook, Twitter, and Google Chrome (presumably addressed in January). Instagram’s picture-perfect users are young – but they also have an option to stop auto-play of videos with a ‘Tap once to stop’ option. Must be those too-noisy employee meetings at Apple (median age 31), Google (median age 30), and Facebook (median age 28).
from Tips For Aging In Place https://www.ageinplacetech.com/blog/devices-magnitude-sound-picture-video
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