Will people ever be satisfied with the iPhone? I think not. There's always going to be people out there who will find some kind of qualm with it. The people in question this time are women. Not all women, just the ones with long nails. Some of them have even gone as far as to claim women are still being treated like second-class citizens when it comes to the iPhone. Others have even called it misogyny!
The problem in question, is attempting to type on the iPhone's touch screen. The virtual keyboard on the Apple device responds to the electrical charge emitted by fingertips and not fingernails. This has proved to be a huge burden for many a woman and has caused them to become more than a bit peeved with their iPhones. Whereas a lot of people have said the best thing about the iPhone is its ability to function without a stylus, the women with the long nails are calling for practically begging for a stylus.
This doesn't seem to have hurt its sales though.
I wouldn't go as far as to call it misogyny, but it sure is annoying. They should just do what I do, keep one fingernail short for hindrances such as this. I think that long nails are a burden with the majority of phones, MP3 players and other devices with touch screen technology, but we just have to get over it or cut the nails and deal with it.
[via Delawareonline]
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erm... such a burden that they affect spelling?
So use a long thick piece of metal?
How about a wood nail with a flat head, knock a 45d angle on the end and use the flat end to be a 'fingertip'.
Should work.
Unless the iphone actually uses a capacitance sensor matrix.
Oh yeah, those *spit* men designed the iPhone especially to demean women.
God, really, some people need to get a life. It's difficult to type on a computer with long nails - computers are mysoginistic! You can't play piano with long nails - OMG!
I use the rihgt hand side of my right hand pinkie, where it meets the top of my finger. if that makes sense.
Come on people get a life. Give someone enough time and they will find something wrong with everything in the world. Some of you really amaze me.
If the iPhone is a problem with you, don't get it.
There are many other phones out there for you to use.
It is your choice to have your nails longer than a normal person. Why should the world have to bow to what you need because you want to have your nails longer than normal?
You pay for the long nails, now pay for another phone.
Lucy,
You have just set the cause of feminism back by a decade. Hope you're proud of yourself, you silly little bimbo.
Some Guy: Get an education and learn what feminism actually IS about before you publicly display your ignorance, you silly little bozo.
I've studied it in some detail, Kahani. Have you?
Would you like a quick rundown of how the feminist movement, having achieved its reasonable goals (like equality before the law) has gone the way of other reform movements in history?
Sadly, "feminism" has now degenerated into nothing more than a gaggle of arrested development cases who bitch about "the patriarchy" instead of getting on with their lives and taking advantage of the opportunities that feminists before them fought for.
Some Guy - it's difficult to take a commenter seriously when they resort to name calling. It's not something we're a fan of here. In addition, Lucy did nothing more than write up a tech-relevant story, giving her opinion on the facts presented, which is her job. We appreciate your thoughts, but we'd also appreciate you not referring to our writers as 'silly little bimbos'.
Susi
Suzi,
I call 'em like I see 'em, cupcake. The writer in question is griping over the consequences of a choice she made for the sake of her vanity, and you think she deserves respect? Susan B. Anthony would slap her silly.
You have the right to wear fake nails, get silicone basketballs stuffed into your chest, and get your eyebrows pierced at the local strip mall like a porn-star wannabe, but you have no power to choose how other people will react to your conspicuous displays of poor judgement.
If you can't use an iPhone because your fingernails are in the way, that's your problem, not Apple's or anyone else's.
Interesting use of the word cupcake. You're a brave man. I think brave is the word I'm looking for...
Susi (with an s)
Whoa there, everybody! I think the complaints about the iPhone are a bit silly (and the stylus solution is not as simple as it sounds because part of what makes the iPhone touch system so powerful is that it responds to larger touch regions, as well as multiple touches at once).
Having said that, I don't think it's fair to pin that on Lucy, the author of the piece. While she summarizes the complaints and explains where they women are coming from, she stops well short of endorsing their call to change how device works as a result. On the contrary - while she understands the annoyance (her personal feelings - no problem there), she suggests that the appropriate courses of action are to "get over it", or "cut the nails and deal with it", or, as a compromise, keep one nail shorter for these purposes. Very pragmatic if you ask me...
I am not going to get into the debate about feminism, but if complaints like these make it look bad (which, well... never mind), then the "blame" belongs at the feet of the women who made the complaints, not the woman who brought them to our attention. Let's not kill the messenger here...
The only way I could see this as a "setback" for feminism is if you fault her for not vociferously demanding that Apple recall the phones and make the desired changes. However, if the suggestions she provides are a setback, then let's go "old school" all the way!
if girls think that men are takin advantage of them then tell men to do things u do and see how well they do it or change it if it was on other side i would tell her to try it and see for her self same thing gose both ways tell us to try it see i will try it ans see for myself if others do wife showed this to me so thougt i would post somthin tu