I went out with some friends weeks ago. I found several girls were using blackberry and I asked them how do they like it and had they tried iPhone.
A girl told me she tried and she just couldn't use the multitouch on iPhone. I looked at her beautifully polished nails then I understood we really need hot female engineers in a consumer product team. Not for gender balance but just we can discover that current multi touch interface just won't go with fake nails.
I wonder why people work in the big compound beside Lake Samammish never found the problem. I live in NYC so we have more sex and the city women here. But I've been Seattle, even more men there but how come they've never discover this problem in their QA team?
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To be fair to MS, the fake nails don't go with multi touch happens only in iphone's form factor, because the key is very small, but on common touchpad and keyboards, fake nails doesn't hamper finger tip to touch the keyboard.
A girl told me she tried and she just couldn't use the multitouch on iPhone. I looked at her beautifully polished nails then I understood we really need hot female engineers in a consumer product team. Not for gender balance but just we can discover that current multi touch interface just won't go with fake nails.