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Every application within the iPhone was specifically designed to be accessible with your fingertip. The touchscreen detects your body's electrical charge when it comes in contact with the device, enabling it to determine where you pressed. As a result, fingernails (especially of the glued-on variety) tend to get in the way while using the iPhone, which is irritating some women profusely.
Some women are calling for the iPhone to be redesigned to include stylus-control capability (as on some Windows Mobile and Palm Treo devices), but we're more inclined to think that long fingernails went out in the early '90s and that modern devices require modern manicures -- like the meticulously pristine digits used in Apple's advertising. [Source: DelawareOnline, via Shiny Shiny]
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Subscribe to commentsDebJun 18th 2008 2:11PM
Spoken like a man
KhrisJun 19th 2008 9:10AM
"Spoken like a man" - Give me a break!!
Get your feminist self past the fact it's a woman complaining and realize that this is such a pathetic money grab attempt, it's not even funny!
This woman should be fined for wasting other peoples time!
LeviYakovJun 19th 2008 9:44AM
Spoken like a moron.
Nails grow back! Just freaking trim them, damn it!
CSINBAD2Jun 18th 2008 2:34PM
This story is a joke, right? While I have no problem with long fingernails (I was not aware that nail length or lack thereof was something that could go in and out of style, btw), to claim that a device discriminates against those with them is ridiculous. If that's the case then I could make a case against the stylus devices...I get sick of having to keep up with the tiny styluses and prefer to use my fingertips. Are Microsoft and Treo discrminating against people like me? Bogus allegations like this one are why REAL cases of discrmination are often not taken seriously.
jJun 18th 2008 2:43PM
Has to be a joke. Do these same women not have knuckles? Get a grip people!
TERRIJun 18th 2008 8:57PM
RATHER THEN COMPLAIN, I JUST WON'T BUY THE PRODUCT. IT IS TRUE THOUGH, I HAVE MODERATELY LONG NAILS, NATURAL BY THE WAY, AND IT IS HARD TO USE MY CELL PHONE.
MOST WOMEN HAVE LONG NAILS. WE ARE THE MAJORITY OF THIS NATION. 51% ELECTRONICS DESIGNERS SHOULD TAKE THIS INTO CONSIDERATION.
DaveJul 1st 2008 12:20AM
So just what's wrong with US MEN having long nails? And who's to say we DON'T wear OUR nails that way too? Women who think that only WOMEN should have long fingernails (or long hair) are being SEXIST, TOO!
The people making this claim are being sexist when they say that long nails are a "female thing".
BTW, males who adopt "female" styles are NOT gay, either. I'm not!
m eJun 19th 2008 9:21AM
no we don't!
smarteepantzJun 19th 2008 2:25PM
Terri,
You don't speak for me or for ANY of the women I work with (and I work in a female-dominant industry). Please do not assume that every woman wants to have skanky, dirty, disgusting dead skin hanging off of our fingertips. Ick and ew. I keep mine short (never more than a quarter inch), neat and hygenic, which is a whole lot more attractive and practical. THAT'S the preference for the majority of women. Lee Press On Nails went out of style with ratted hair and Aquanet.
mmwilhelmJun 24th 2008 8:20AM
What does naturally long nails mean? That made me cry.
MiffAug 6th 2008 7:06PM
Jeez, I have long nails, and I have NO PROBLEM using MY phone which is a SE M600i with a small qwerty-"keyboard" and touch-screen.
Why in God's name should it be sexist to make a phone that suits those with shorter nails? O_o Gee, then we can start complaining about everything that doesn't suit us. BTW, most women DO NOT have long nails. :-P
CicilyJun 19th 2008 12:18AM
ali....
what you posted is utterly ridiculous...
seriously.
you need help.
paigeJun 18th 2008 5:11PM
Don't like it, don't buy it. Plain and simple.
revolutoinJun 18th 2008 5:18PM
make an iphone that can deal long finger nails better
PhilJun 19th 2008 11:24AM
cut your fingernails or buy a different phone. long fingernails are only good for back scratching and nothing else. the iphone demonstrates a squeezing motion which requires the use of fingertips not nails.
J.E[[2011]]Jun 18th 2008 5:55PM
I seriously don't get why some of you are getting so immature and discriminatory about it. Get some class or get off the computer.
craig#2Jun 24th 2008 7:58AM
Get some class or get off the computer. HA! That's rich.
JenniferJun 18th 2008 11:05PM
...Wow, people on this thread need to take a chill pill. Histrionic much?
Warren O'LearyJun 19th 2008 6:15AM
For all " supposed " dissed women, non-whites, etc. .Invent your own new devices and let white males complain how anti-themselves these products are ; it's easy to be a critic, much harder to please everyone.
bhig39Jun 19th 2008 6:16AM
create a warm fake nail and you'll be good, sisterhood of the sisters!