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20071112 Monday November 12, 2007
the most annoyed iTunes user

...is my seven year old daughter. Every time an iTunes updates comes and she logs onto my Mac (with her own account), she gets the legal gibberish when checking her favorite video podcasts.

We oldtimers have all for a long time getting used to the license agreements and confirm them without really looking at them (I mean, who has really read this things?). But for my daughter, these really get in her way, not to say face:

  • they are unpredictable. *She* has not installed anything - wo it is a complete surprise when they appear
  • even if she really tried, she could not understand them
  • even if she did, I am certain that it has no legal relevance for a seven year old
Which makes me think that user account with child/age flags would make sense for user interfaces. More and more children use computers every day, so why do we treat every user as an adult?

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