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Curmudgeon. Formidable braggart. Comedy writer. Eight books, 2 movies. Former associate editor at Playboy Magazine. Movies include "Short Time," (major flop), and "Blue Streak" (huge hit, no idea why.) Last two novels were "What's Wrong With Dorfman?" (St. Martin's Press) and "Millard Fillmore, Mon Amour," (St. Martin's Press). New novel: "Three and a Half Virgins."

NOVEMBER 16, 2011 10:54AM

Apple’s New Smartphone for Boomers

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Hoping to capitalize on the lucrative over-fifty Boomer market, Apple has unveiled its much-anticipated new smartphone for seniors, the iSight 6t. The revolutionary device comes with apps designed specifically for Boomers who are plagued by nostalgia issues or health problems (including senioritis.) Here are a few examples of the iSight 6t’s most innovative apps:

 

 

Who Is This Person? App: Can’t remember who your contacts are? This app will remind you. For example, if you ask your phone, “Who the hell is Debbie Johnson?” the device will respond, “You met her at a Stones concert in 1968. She was the blonde with the hoop earrings, the weird face paint and the pink granny glasses. You dated her for six months. She used to say you looked like Jim Morrison. She was lying.”

 

 

Rotary Phone Adaptor App: Having trouble making calls? Always forget to hit the “Send” key? Feeling nostalgic for the old days? iSight 6t has a feature that converts your phone to rotary dialing.

  

 

Boomer GPS Voice Choices App: Now you can choose from over one hundred old-time voices to direct you to your destination. Included are the voices of Lucille Ball, Jackie Gleason, Bullwinkle, Fonzie, Tonto, Johnny Carson, Perry Mason and the “Mamma Mia, That’s a Spicy Meatball” guy.

 

 

 

 Senior Discount Navigator App: This handy app lets you know which vendors offer senior discounts, where they’re located, and how annoyed they’ll be at having to give you 20% off just because you’re old. Added feature: The phone will calculate exactly how much gas your car will consume and then convert that information into the amount of money it will cost you to drive to the vendor’s place of business, thus allowing you to decide whether the discount is worth the drive.

 

 

Where Did I Put My Phone? App: Just say “Where are you, bro?” and the phone will reply, telling you its location by shouting out something like, “I’m in your medicine cabinet next to the Viagra, kemosabe.”

 

 

Symptoms App: Have a weird pain in your stomach, a disturbing leg cramp or a sudden eye twitch? Describe your symptoms to the iSight 6t and it will immediately offer you twenty possible diagnoses, two of which will always be something really bad. Choose one ailment and the phone will automatically dial a specialist who will appear to be no older than fifteen.

 

   

I Dropped My Phone and I Can’t Pick it Up App: Is that old back injury making it hard for you to bend over to retrieve your phone after dropping it on the pavement or the floor?  Upon impact, this app will automatically call a friendly Apple iSight 6t representative who will locate you, pick up your phone for you, dust it off and, in a slightly condescending tone of voice, politely tell you to be more careful next time.

 

 

Senior Wallpaper App: The iSight 6t provides you with two hundred nostalgic background images for your phone. Among your choices are a shot of Yvette Mimieux from the famous “Dr. Kildare” episode, the cover of Jack Kerouac’s “On The Road”, a portrait of George McGovern, a group shot of Herman and the Hermits, a close-up of a perspiring Richard Nixon from the Kennedy-Nixon debates, a psychedelic picture of a really stoned hippie playing the flute and a still shot of the cast from “Mod

Squad”.

 

 

 

Though Apple expects to attract over one million customers the day the phone becomes available, the company plans to release only five-hundred thousand units, thus creating greater demand and annoying half a million people.

 

 

Some industry insiders advise consumers to wait before purchasing the iSight 6t because the makers of the Android line will soon be releasing their own version of a senior smartphone -- the “Blandroid”.

 

 

Photos courtesy: news.health.com, jimwegrym.com, tvguide.com 

 

 

 

           

           

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John,

Oh, how I have missed you! It has been entirely too long.

Generally speaking, I do not mind one bit when people refer to my spicy meatballs. In fact, I am cooking right now on all four burners. :)

XOXOXO

P.S. Please send my best regards to your lovely wife.
Hilarious. Will there be an app that magnifies that tiny screen, how can anyone read something that small, now where did I put my reading glasses, those buttons are too small, too ....

Peggy Lipton. Happy sigh.
You forgot the blinking turn signal app. No need to activate--it's on all the time.
You know, the scary thing about this is that it will probably become reality within another year or so!

All the same - can you put me on the waiting list for one of these babies, John?

Rated.
Oh My God....can we suggest more apps for it? Like a list of commonly forgotten words that we say often. I forget to tell my class to "flex their foot." I have written it on a notebook, but my phone reminding me would be...annoying. Oh well. Love this work!
Amazing. I know that Apple is trendy and Android is the alternative but me? I'm waiting for the one from Motorolda.
This will make my oyPhone obsolete, right?
Stop! I can't quit laughing.

You forgot the "I've Fallen and I Can't Get Up App" complete with MedicAlert/GPS feature. I've heard they're also creating a "Now, Where Did I Put My Glasses? App."
I am one of the last five humans on the planet who refuses to get a cell phone, and you just bought me. I want one of these. Bullwinkle as the GPS voice, f*ck yeah!!
Hilarious, as always, and with just a tinged barb or two, as always. Gawd, in the Mod Squad pic, they all looked stoned to the gills. Well, I'm guessing the behind the cool shades The Third's eyes look as far-out as the other two.

On a serious note, the Symptoms App is already in play, what with Big Pharma inundating the airwaves with noxious ads intended to by-pass highly-trained physicians. Now, thanks to Big Pharma, you can go to your doctor fully prepared to educate him as to your ailment and the latest and greatest treatment for it. Doe the US have the greatest healthcare system in the world, or what?

Answer: What.
Oh John, you slayer of all things, another victim...you show us the way.
Funny stuff - you've been missed. I'm sure this will all be true in a matter of time (perhaps you should copyright some of these ideas)
“I Dropped My Phone and I Can’t Pick it Up App”

John,
Some people wish they had a million dollars. I wish I had your talent. And a million dollars. This is wonderful, funny stuff.

Rated and appreciated.
And elder Apple consumers can switch to Apple Sauce Apps if they can't find their dentures.
RRR
I headed out to get one and can't find my way back.
OK, I'm in! Where do I sign up? And, can you get this in a "party line" version so I can save a little more money on the service?
Can you bluetooth your hearing aid to it? Is there a denture joke in here somewhere? :) R
These are some funny comments folks. Kudos.
Pete, Linc, and Julie approve. (I don't know where those names came from. . .it's all a mystery)
You left out the Depends Minder. Using a sophisticated olfactory-electronics system, it takes periodic air samples from your butt and lets you know when it is time to change your depends. Not that I use it.
Fun and clevaaah! Thanks for the giggles. R.
Can anyone name the two actors who are standing next to Peggy Lipton without using Google?
Your the phone call from the friend we need when we have to catch up in a lively and funny manner.
I really, really need the Who is This Person? app.
Well now that we know how to contact an ol geezer like you, what are you supposed to ask of a smart phone for old fogies? Whats for breakfast? Prune juice is highly recommended along with good healthy dose of fiber, (fiber)? Noon, some trim whole wheat bread with one or less tbs. of mayonaise, (we have to keep off the weight since we aren't getting any healthier) or weaker, then for din-din forget it, by the time dinner is arriving it's time for a vitamin, and drink Ensure this way we won't be a hassel to our loved ones, ( well be to weak). No more hanky panky, now it will be ache for ache as in "My Heart Aches for You" truly, also sharing amongst hot pad users will be acceptable like during the 70's with psychodelic prints. lmfao Rated!