Overtaken on the wrong side

- I've got Angry Birds on my iPad!

- Angry Birds?

- You haven't you heard of it? It's the most popular app ever! Hundreds of millions of downloads!

--- iPad is started up and the game is shown to me ---

- You have to fire the birds at the cages to release the birds that were caught by the poachers. Then you have to kill the monkeys. They were helping the poachers. And at the end is the evil cockatoo, he's really hard to kill. ... Hah! You didn't beat my score!!

- But how do you know the story?

- Well it's the story from Rio.

- But when was Rio released?

- Sometime earlier this year.

- And there's been hundreds of millions of downloads since then??

- No silly, this is a special Rio version, there's the original Angry Birds version too.

- Oh.

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This conversation - in which I so totally played the role of the out of touch, clueless mother - was sadly not with anyone from a younger generation, but someone two up from me: my mother.

I am feeling slightly more hip this weekend, having now seen the film (albeit only in 2D) and bought the app for my iPhone.

I still don't have a tablet* though.

My iPhone aside, C has declared us as Android-only.