iPhone makes WOMEN angry

by stvalentine | June 24, 2008 at 12:10 am
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Most people either love or hate the iPhone's touch screen, and based on a report on the LA Times, women with long fingernails are among the haters. Why? Well, since the iPhone's touchscreen only responds to electrical charges emitted by your bare fingertips, women with long nails are left out in the cold. A woman interviewed for the article went so far as to suggest Apple was being misogynistic because it did not include a stylus for women and didn't consider womens' fingers and nails when designing the phone.

Honestly, though, this same argument has come up against keyboards, touch screen monitors, and anything else that involves the use of your fingers, so should every gadget maker change the design of its products to accommodate users with long nails, or should people with long nails learn to work around this problem like they have in the past? I'd love to hear what Apple has to say about all this, but I doubt they'll ever address this particular design flaw.

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rumana husain

though i am a woman with short nails, i would say...be considerate and design for long-nailed women/men as well since a lot of gadget users are also those who are fashion conscious or simply like to sport long nails!

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at 06:49 on July 2nd, 2008

if you have long fingernails you cant really do anything. i always laugh when women use their knuckles to dial a phone bec their nails are too long to use the buttons.

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