Apple iPhone Design Alienates Women and Large People
Erica Watson-Currie of Newport Beach, Calif., a consultant and lecturer, is among the women up in arms that the iPhone won't respond to their long fingernails. She states, "Considering ergonomics and user studies indicating men and women use their fingers and nails differently, why does Apple persist in this misogyny?"
Watson-Currie pegs her average fingernail length for those curious between an eighth and a quarter of an inch. She yearns for a stylus to save her from her iPhone woes. Unfortunately many have praised the iPhone for not using a stylus, which many feel is a burden and easy to lose.
Also annoyed by Apple's design? Fat Large people. Why? Because their fingers are too big. (Here, at least, the complaints are spread equally between men and women.)
And now the good news: many women have found ways to use the iPhone and keep their nails:
Heidi Roizen, a prominent Silicon Valley investor and entrepreneur and long fingernail aficionado, only uses her thumbs on the screen. She says, "My thumbnail does not hit it" thanks to a shorter thumbnail.
Get cracking, Steve...
Via the INQUIRER
Next, Apple will be getting sued.
As bashers/shorts like to say, Apple is only for slim gay guys anyway.
If Erica Watson-Currie, Ph.D, of Newport Beach, Calif., consultant and lecturer with Thinker ("you keep using that word ... I don't think it means what you think it means") Consulting, were not so fully entrenched in the fantasy land of the shrieking class, she might consider this a business opportunity rather than a chance to pound the victim drum and draw attention to her blog. As, for instance, the people who sell an iPhone stylus on ThinkGeek have done.
Perhaps I'll send one to her. Then Ms. Watson-Currie could spend more time telling us how the many decades of red/green indicators on vast numbers of electronic devices is a clear indication of misandry, given that the majority of colorblind people are male.
as for long fingernails, try the side of your finger, it's a fairly natural position when using the phone, i do it all the time with the side of my thumb.
sounds like this lady and this site are just drumming up hits with pointless issues.
Fat people want to use an iPhone?
Go exercise an hour a day for a few months first.
You'll get your fancy phone AND you'll lower the healthcare costs for the rest of us, since we won't have to subsidize your fat-related illnesses until you finally eat yourself to death.
This country should start making it as hard on fat people as we already do on smokers -- it's the same underlying logic regarding healthcare costs. Enough with the "PC" BS. Fat is Fat, and fat is raising the costs of living for us all.
I want to vomit every time I see an otherwise perfectly healthy fat person on one of those rascal scooters in a WalMart.... while some frail elderly folks are stuck walking because the fatties have taken the scoots.
Glomping feminazis need to stop this insanity. If you want to use a stylus, go buy one.
None of it matters because AT&T (the only wireless service you can get with the iPhone) is illegally spying on ALL of us... no matter what size you are.
If you're going to worry about something... make THAT your priority.
has nothing to do with weight, it has to do with size of fingers.... i have huge fingers. i always end up with the cheapest cellphone i can find with the largest keypad, cause they never function for me anyway.
I also unlocked it for T-Mobile, so FU ATT.
Heck, next thing you know we'll be letting them vote!
While I am not overweight, I am imperfect -- as are all of us.
Nice stock photo, BTW.
Write me, My Friends! fatfckchk@fatmail.com
"the velveteen touch of a dandy fop"...
Mr. Show reference noted and respected. Bless you.
You can take your fingers and shove them up your _______. On the other hand, you might________ them.
I prefer to use my nipples to type gently on the cool, soothing pad. It works great. Sometimes I ice the iPhone so that it feels even better, but I don't recommend this.
I am trying to teach by BF to use something more pointed.
As for you poor, vapid, emaciated people, go ________yourself.
Just think: A society where most are real Americans, not overweight, not psychotically conservative and no more pepsi commercials. Plus, no more subsidized crap from china via walmart.....Ahhh what a wonderful society it'd be! Yay me!
Tell me, why in America is it socially acceptable for a black politician to play the strong black man, but socially unnacceptable for a woman politician to actually BE a strong woman? Isn't it odd how no one in the news noticed this rather obvious double standard? Only when she ALMOST cried or was cheated on, did polls show America supporting her (though of course, simultaneously they questioned if she was 'strong enough' to be a president, you know, being a woman with emotions and all), and throughout all the time that focus groups were supposedly controlling her every move, still she refused to play the victim to woo sexist Americans - because she ISN'T their victim - that's the source of Hatred for Hillary, and the source of her phenomenal support from the last democrats who aren't bleeding pussies. She won't conform to the stereotype that every pundit says would make her popular with her detractors, while they build her character up to be not unlike a that of a calculated serial-killer, while Bush, who managed the deaths of thousands of our young troops ONLY so Oil prices would rise and his rich Oil family would get richer while his country suffered and he talked about the enemy over seas (sound like another oil-brat we forgot about, Osama Bin-Missing-for-a-Long-F***ing-Time anyone?), and his rich war-profiteering VP Dick Cheney, passing them off to us as an affable guy you'd have a beer with who is just a little 'disconnected' and 'unprepared' and his bitter sidekick, who is just a gruff-father-knows-best-how-to-kill-his-own-people-for-profits type. Idiots.
I never read a post by an Omabamaniac that didn't hate Hillary - very suspicious for people who say they are 'liberal', don't you think? If only she were rewarded instead of being punished for not playing the victim of sexism, the same way Obama is rewarded for not playing the victim of racism, she would be the next president -no contest. I suppose if she kept her mouth shut about sexism, instead of TRANSFORMING CHINA, the way he never talks about racism, except in RARE instances where he FEELS PRESSURED BY THE MEDIA to do so, she would be as popular as she is, also rewarded for keeping her mouth shut, so all the mildly prejudiced people in denial about their prejudice wouldn't feel guilt-tripped for being prejudiced, as if a politician with balls should cater to these fake liberals in the first place. If I were black, I would vote for the enemy of my oppressors, not the 'inspirational' appeaser of my oppressors, and I sure as hell would know better than to be fooled by skin color in making such a critical judgment, after all, that would be hypocritical in the first place, and impossibly stupid in the second. Ironic how whites seem to understand racism so much better than blacks, even after all this time, all this education of the public about prejudice and racism and sexism and homophobia etc. They haven't learned anything. Well, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make them drink.
I see the growth of a third political party, I never thought it would happen in my lifetime, and then it was born on the television when Obama's negatively 'positive' campaign pissed off the last democrats to be true liberals - you know, the people who actually understand what liberty is and actually know you have to fight for it, not because they are following a trend like all the young people who vote for the youngest politician with the coolest video and the best 'Internet Conversation', you know the snot-nosed brats who tell their parents who to vote for, while they can't tell the difference between the "I have a dream" speech and any generic borrowed, watered-down, 'inspirational' soundbite Obama says. The brats who don't remember anything the Clintons did for this country, who only complain about all the 'meanie-talk' while they spew hatred and blatant misogyny while tip-toeing around the 8 years of progress and prosperity the Clintons gave America. Face it - Obama is just a white version of early Bill Clinton, running against the late version of Hillary Clinton. The only difference is that the first Bill didn't attack a hero of the democratic party and civil rights to win. That, and Bill's wife hated Republicans instead of 'Whitey'. Blacks who wanted equality got duped yet again, and in this day and age, its beyond pathetic -its unforgiveable. Oh well, history repeats itself over and over again, for those victims who fail to learn from past and current adversities of themselves or anyone else.
Both the Republican and Democratic parties will reap the rewards of their failures together. I never really liked either party in the first place, can you honestly say any different? I didn't think so. I voted for Hillary because I am like her - I will never keep my mouth shut. I voted for Hillary because she is a movement all on her own - I voted for Hillary because she turns losses that would crush others, into victories. Unlike everyone else who loses their run for the white house, every American knows without a doubt, that this isn't the end of her campaign to be president, or even something more. I voted for Hillary because I have no intention of 'making nice' with Republicans or any democrat who thinks like them - I prefer to see my enemies conquered, not assimilated. I won't back down or give up - I'm smarter and stronger - I'm their worst nightmare, and both of us has always known it.
Oh, and one last thing...if Obama loses his bid for the presidency because his uniter-movement decided to leave out half of the democratic party, i.e. by not uniting with Hillary and asking her to be VP, the next 8 years of Republican failed wars, failed economy and failed democracy will be his and his supporters fault, just like the last 8 years of American failures were Nader's fault, and that of every retarded follower who voted for him. Either way, in the end, America will come crying to Hillary to clean up the mess when Obama's Straight-out-of-George-Bush's-Campaign-Speechifying about uniting this country, fails to unite the democratic party, let alone this divided country. What do you get when you mix red and blue? A Big, Ugly, PURPLE BRUISE. Believe it or not, there is a reason good and evil, progress and tradition have always been separate. They're opposites.
Let fat people build their own fatphone.
Apple builds cool, smart, easy to use stuff and if you don't like it don't buy it.
Me, I prefer the bat phone and it is ringing now, got to go...
Batman
Which self-declared "Obama-maniac" (or anyone mentioning Obama) had also criticised fat people? And how is this about Obama now (or anything *not* related to the article)? While the article was ridiculous enough, some of these posts are simply disconnected from reality and outrageously devoid of reason (and not in a satirical sense).... You're beginning to make things up and that's not helping your case.
I agree with this article, I live in China and a common complaint among females here is that the iPhone is hard to use because it doesn't respond to fingernail touches.
As a shareholder, and also owner of an iPhone (I often give my phones to women to get their digits, and 90% of the time they have trouble entering their numbers because of their nails), I see no reason not to make improvements to the touchscreen to increase my potential target audience.
Being able to use the screen while wearing gloves would be an added bonus, and I can imagine many uses of a stylus that could be incorporated into third party apps.
People, increasing the functional range of the phone would allow more creative use, where's the downside? How about a screen which could be toggled using software between flesh=responsive only and any touch-responsive?
More innovation, not all these limiting attacks...
Where did this statistic come from? How do they know whether users are male or female? I purchased the phone (female) but my AT&T account is in my spouses name (male). Last I checked they don't do any genetic testing before you use the phone - I'm sure that's in the pipeline. snark
I think that if there is a gender bias it's probably the same as for all other devices of this nature. Men control more wealth and are able to buy more brand new to the market devices. I imagine there is a similar statistic for blackberry, Dell laptops, etc. Also, that as a society we still have a bias toward men controlling and getting the toy first - iPhone has only been out less than one year. Just sayin'.
Wolfgang.. your post was my favorite! kudos!
wolfgang bloom said:
Jun. 27, 12:30 AM
I am perfect and I am sick and tired of fat people. Republican leadership, fat people, christian leadership, owners of walmart and anyone who drinks pepsi should all be sent to the moon with an iPhone, a PB&J and a toothbrush. Let them out of the ship and watch one another gag for breath. All the while there will already be cameras installed via Pay Per View to watch the debacle unfold. We could throw in all the child molestors and violent criminals...and heck, let's throw in all the mexicans too... We could even send up some air canisters just to make it funny. By most watching on Pay Per View we'd pay off the national debt, close down the military and pentagon and go from there. And of course because I'm perfect I'd then run for president, win in a landslide and make marijuana legal, education free, cable/cell phone usage free and bowling mandatory once a month....why not? at least we'd all get together and roll a big marble once a month while stoned... that'd be funny as well.
Just think: A society where most are real Americans, not overweight, not psychotically conservative and no more pepsi commercials. Plus, no more subsidized crap from china via walmart.....Ahhh what a wonderful society it'd be! Yay me!
But, hey, maybe all those glove-wearing complainers should just winter in warmer climates!
It seems Americans can never make up their mind who is to be vehemently protected from prejudice, and who is a free-for-all. I thought the Mexicans were the target, now its fatties, I can't keep track of you dittoheads anymore. I would expect more from a blog frequented by the Apple-loving Democrats, but after Obama's campaign, all this Republican-esque bashing of fatties and women, even here, is unsurprising.
Also, just because you weren't spoon-fed a meme by a newspaper, a website or a television, doesn't mean it was 'made up' or 'outrageous', its more likely that what you blindly accept as reality is the absurdity - CLEARLY that attitude is how we all got to this point in the first place, but thanks for reading anyway.
Oh, and this may be just another 'outrageous' idea from a crazy person, but why the hell haven't they made the keyboard extend in a horizontal fashion? It would double or triple the size of the letters to push, and you would still be able to see several sentences at a time, you know, long-ways without as many breaks. My friends and I, in our innocence, just assumed they would have at least have introduced the option by now, though most people would prefer the horizontal if they did. It seems the easier the problem is to fix, the harder it is to get a company, even the cutting-edge Apple, to fix it. I guess their user-friendly revolution is over, but we still get the stupid YouTube rehashes of their famous hammer-through-the-theatre-screen commercial, with the villain of your choice getting the flying hammer through the head. Maybe I expected a little more from Apple, but I am getting used to being disappointed by all of you 'forward-thinking' people. If that is moving ahead, I'd rather think backwards.
To quote you: "I agree with the fattie [i.e. One Ton A Meya] who is sick of the 'democrat' Obama-maniacs pretending to be anti-hate, when every one of them spews nothing but vile hate on the internet..."
Enough said. (And please don't assume anything about the connections I make. I will only say that I apply a heavy dose of reason and rational thinking, I highly value evidence, and I try to take a broad and balanced view of the world; and that we seem *very* different in our perspectives and, it seems, methods of reasoning.)
To the rest of your post, I'm afraid I don't have the luxury to parse and pursue tangential questions, non-sequitors, and agenda-ladened rants. And so I move on.... Good luck.
Problem solved for both longclaws *and* big-boned fingers. Took all of 4 seconds to google "iphone stylus". Never underestimate a human's stupidity or venality.
Move along folks, show's over.
@Lauren
Amen. Sing it. Long fingernails are gross.
Henry - I would fire you on the spot if I was your editor and you ever presented me with this!
Up Next!
*** Woman sues Apple and McDonald's because she couldn't push the buttons on her iPhone to get to the diet tracking program which would have told her she was going to McD's too much.***
Lose Some Weight
or
Cut Your Nails
Comprende?
The guy who says women can't type in their phone numbers has poor taste.
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