Also kind of funny how you’d need to know both English and the cultural iconography of late 20th century America to have any hope of accidentally using that device for its intended purpose… including the version that’s ostensibly in Portuguese and Spanish.
If someone knows neither Spanish nor Portuguese and attempts to use this they might get as far as discovering the flashlight functionality… they won’t want (or need) to proceed further.
Though my real critique isn’t the UX, it’s the hypocrisy inherent in thinking that handing an uncontacted tribe your “good-news-in-a-box” is, in any fashion, spreading the actual message of the Nazarene.
A missionary called Daniel Everett tried to convert them to Christianity but ended up becoming an atheist and linguist.
Conversion certainly didn't go as expected in this case.
This is a nice documentary about them: https://youtu.be/9tKbVBePxyU
axiologist•6mo ago
general1726•6mo ago