TalkSerotek: Re: how do I leve the sa mobile desktop?

  • From: Ann Parsons <akp@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: talk-serotek@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2009 09:32:52 -0400

Hi all,

No, Saqib, I didn't use it. I reviewed it, however, and found it to be much more restrictive than SAMN. Its browser, at least when I reviewed it, wasn't worth the chips it was encoded on. It was an horrible browser! Some of the other features worked OK though. Thing is, that in order to leave the system, you practically had to sell your house and land. You had to go down at least three levels in the menu structure and fool around and contort yourself to be able to get out, and then, there was no audio feedback in the main part of the computer, at least not with the version of Guide I reviewed. It was a nice play pen, but it was surrounded with ten foot high walls with barbed wire on top. The whole assumption was that people needed to be wound about with cotton batting to protect them from the big, bad computer!

Now maybe some people, like those with cognitive disabilities, or elders who are truly technonewbies might benefit, but if you wanted more you had to buy additional software. That didn't seem fair to me. I like SA and SAMN precisely because if you want to go into the computer outside the network you can do so with little or no trouble. You can simply use windows-key-m and you're on the regular desktop of Windows, poof. No fuss, no muss, just a clean transition. You don't even have to shut down SAMN. I operate this way all the time. I leave the network window open and do stuff in my computer all day, and when I want email or to get news or whatever, I do. It's a much better system. It encourages exploration, independence, and assumes that you are a responsible computer user. You may be a bewbie. You may have cognitive disabilities, but Serotek assumes that you want to control your computer to the best of your ability. Yep, Mike Calvo says it best. It's like the swimming pool with a shallow and a deep end.


Ann P.

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