Women with long nails speak out against iPhone design

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.
Personally, I'd rather have them focus on the real issues of the iPhone, like the lack of a video camera, extra storage, and better camera, but that's just me. Besides, there are styli out...

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Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

Gawd... if you can't touch a pad with SOME portion of your finger, how do you go about basic day to day stuff, like putting in contacts, wiping your own rear, washing your kid's face? Fashion is so retarded sometimes.

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

I like long nails digging into my sweaty buttocks; what oh yeah iPhones, that's terrible, someone should do something.

Quote: Originally Posted by karrie

I call total bull**** on your post db.

Cauliflower don't have buttocks, let alone sweaty ones.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

I just found it comical that there are women (Possibly some men too) who are complaining about touch pads/screens they can use because of their long nails.... like it's some sort of horrible disability they have.

You can cut the damn things off..... try living a life of a left handed person, who's above average height trying to fit in this tiny little world for people that are 5 foot 2 and then come back and complain to me about being different.

The thing is, I don't bitch about those issues, I've learned to live with them.... I'll be suffering with a hunch back and full of arthritis when I'm older because of it, but I'm not complaining about it right now..... and for these little prisses to complain about their own stupidity just makes me want to dig out my old Stupid Stick and whack the whole lot of em real good'like.

Quote: Originally Posted by darkbeaver

Praxius, the Hunchback of Triple C flogs prisses with walking stick real good. There's a human interest movie in there Prax.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

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^ All comments from the article and not myself.

Personally I don't see what the big deal is.... use your damn thumbs.

Quote: Originally Posted by Praxius

and for these little prisses to complain about their own stupidity just makes me want to dig out my old Stupid Stick and whack the whole lot of em real good'like.