Women with long nails speak out against iPhone design

[Praxius]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/29052

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 there that work with the iPhone just fine and are pretty affordable.

This all reminded me of an iPhone reviewer who had a hard time using the iPhone due to her long nails, and in her frustration she said, "I guess people who use Apple products are too cool for fingernails." But are we? What do you think?

^ All comments from the article and not myself.

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

 

[Praxius]

Oh force of habbit..... could someone re-locate this in the Tech section please and'a thank'ya?

 

[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.

 

[tracy]

Stupid....

 

[Risus]

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.

Exactly. And some of the nails I've seen are absolutely rediculous.

 

[Lester]

Some are more like talons than nails, if a girls nails are longer than and inch or so it's a complete turn off for me.

 

[darkbeaver]

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

 

[Lester]

lol ...christ almighty

 

[darkbeaver]

Did I say that? I thought it was a daydream.

 

[Risus]

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

LOL, I was expecting someone to make a post like this!!

 

[karrie]

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

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

 

[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.

 

[darkbeaver]

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

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

You can't see my buttocks in my portrait that's just my head.

 

[darkbeaver]

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.

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

 

[mabudon]

I hope this leads to all sorts of stupid crap along the same lines.

I wonder if maybe the movement will target Fender guitars next, they're tough to play with fingernails, they should get to R+D pronto

 

[Praxius]

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

Well by that time, I'll probably also have a walker and a twitchy mouth like I'm constantly chewing gum as I shuffle after them to smack them around with my stick. I'll have to build more on that character I suppose.

 

[shadowshiv]

http://tech.yahoo.com/blogs/hughes/29052



^ All comments from the article and not myself.

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

LOL! Two things come to mind that they can do to improve the situation.:lol:

1. Cut their freaking fingernails!:roll:

2. Buy a pencil that can be used for something like that.:roll:

 

[shadowshiv]

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.

 

[MissAnnika]

long nails are u serious? i'm guessing they're spoiled girls who only care about their looks and getting what they want. how pathetic