Telling his sidekick Robin Quivers, “Let me go first and test it out,” Howard Stern announced today on his Sirius XM radio show that he is switching to Apple Macintosh. Stern made no mention of the Mac model(s) he’ll be using.
A former BlackBerry user, Stern also said he’d dump his Android phone if Apple comes out with an iPhone that has a physical keyboard.
MacDailyNews Take: Who’s more ruined for the future with ingrained anachronisms, BlackBerry or Windows sufferers?
Once again: People who don’t like typing on iPhones have rarely or never typed on iPhones or have not yet allowed themselves to let the iPhone do it’s job. Trust the iPhone, don’t fight it!
A hardware keyboard is a significant selling point for only one group of customers: those who already own a phone with a hardware keyboard, and that group is a niche. A nice niche, but a niche nonetheless… I type far better on my iPhone than I expected I’d be able to, and that seems to be true for everyone I know who owns one. The only people who struggle with the iPhone keyboard are those who are already accustomed to a hardware smartphone keyboard. – John Gruber, June 5, 2009
True to form, Stern then went on to praise his Apple iPad, a gift given to him by Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore, as his go-to masturbatory aid.
I know quite a few women who can’t use a touch screen phone because of their finger nails.
It’s tough to type on any keyboard with long fingernails. It’s tough to use a phone with huge earrings, too. And it’s tough to run while wearing 6-inch heels. What’s your point?
Lol… Just lol…
And they can type on the keyboard??. And then there are styluses.
Yes, they use the fingernail to press the keys. That won’t work with the iPhone’s surface (or any other touchscreen) because there’s no conductivity through the fingernail.
Plus, it makes a horrible clacking sound.
This is correct, my best friend is one of those people. She is currently struggling with 3 identical phones because the only phone that works no longer charges the battery. All this so she can have a phone with real keys, and only because of her dragon ladies.
Good. Apple doesnt need their products to be toted around by those gross women with bear-like claw fingernails.
Be cautious. Such women can be deadly.
I think that Apple’s solution to the fingernailgate issue is to tell you noto to use death nails. You should cut those nails, or don’t put such long fake nails on. Seriously, if you are typing on a physical keyboard with your nails because they are too long to actually use your fingers…the issue is PEBCAK, not the touchscreen keyboard. Find a 3rd party vendor that will sell an iPhone case with a slide out keyboard. If there isn’t one (I’m not interested in searching for one), there is your business model. Keep in mind that your target market will not be all that large.
A case such as you described does exist. I forget what its called, but I think of it as a set of training RIMs.
My wife’s fingernails remind me of Wolverine, but she types just fine on her iPhone.
Bababooey! Bababooey! Howard Stern’s penis.
ah, Peter, c’mon.
I need brain bleach after reading the last six words of your take, MDN!
The rest of your take is awesome though. I’m one of those who never had a physical keyboard on a phone, maybe because I pretty much rejected having a cell phone until the iPhone first came out. I toyed with Nokias and Sony-Ericssons, but I pretty much hated them because of the gulf between what they promised, even back then, and what they delivered.
I wonder how many other people avoided having a cell phone until iPhone?
I did! And so did my wife.
Now we have an original iPhone and a 3Gs.
I used a cell phone, but not for data, email, texting, or even storing more than a handful of contacts for speed dial. I never understood why I had to go through 5-8 menus to add a phone number or to find someone in the address book on my RAZR.
The iPhone fundamentally changed how I used my phone. Now I look at my kids’ phones and I can’t figure out how to do anything on them.
Thank you for the informative update. I will now resume ignoring Howard Stern. 😛
Excuse me but who is Howard stern?
Oh that guy on the radio with 100k listeners that claims to have millions…
Yeah, I’ll continue to ignore him also.
But welcome to apple stern.
Dear Mr. Backlash:
Your ignorance or prejudice, as it may be, is astounding. Sirius XM attributes (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-10-19/sirius-xm-ceo-karmazin-explores-alternatives-for-life-without-howard-stern.html) more than 2 million plus subscriptions are a direct result of Howard Stern’s presence on their channels. Since this is in their SEC filings I would tend to think it is probably the truth or an understatement. You sound like a petty, jealous, bratty 5-year old during school yard recess. Don’t worry abut your threat to continue ignoring him. You can be assured he and the other 2 million plus listeners will continue ignoring you.
I get that you’re a Stern fan, and that’s cool and all. You’re certainly entitled to your righteous indignation, but don’t you think you just maybe overeacted just the tiniest little bit? Hmmmm?
One day there will be a press release:
“Howard Stern shuts down radio program.”
And still no one will care.
Love em or hate em but Howard Stern is the only thing keeping satellite radio above water.
all of the other computer and phone makers can just close shop now that howard has switched.
its over microsoft, give the stockholders their cut and shut the door
howard has spoken
now, i will throw up
I have also seen young people one handed texting without looking. So, people that have to keep their eyes on something (LIKE THE ROAD) or people that have lost the use of an arm would do better with the little keyboards. Also, extremely cold environments may not due well with a touch screen.
Maybe Steve Ballmer wants to chase those people. Apple will take the other 98% of the market.
If you’re driving, and thus having to pay attention, perhaps you shouldn’t be texting at all.
I agree. People texting while driving are the worst people on the road to deal with.
But I’ll agree with the cold environments though…
Stern went ? I am now selling every Apple product I have.
Please send them to me.
heh, just teasin’.
I’m confused… please elaborate and explain:
“…as his go-to masturbatory aid.” :0)
Howard likes to talk up his use of YouPorn.com
Stern doesn’t have much sense or taste, but he has that much.
Stern rules. Apple just got cooler
Apple does have an iphone with a physical keyboard. The apple wireless keyboard, now connectable to the iphone.
True ‘dat
Howard Stern is like a bad neighborhood, I don’t need to go there because it is filthy.
Whatever doesn’t kill you, makes you *stronger*.
I’ve heard this, however, the stroke my father had didn’t kill him, and certainly didn’t make him stronger, he was dead in 5 weeks.
Yet another thing that Nietzsche got wrong.
As an example, several WW1 veterans I met back in the mid-70s at the Yountville, CA veterans home who had been exposed to chlorine poison gas attacks in the trenches.
50+ years later, they’d not recovered fully from the pneumonia resulting from breathing the gas. Great guys, but no way were they stronger.
Using an Apple product doesn’t make you a better or worse person: its a (marvelous) tool.
“I wonder how many other people avoided having a cell phone until iPhone?”
I’ve had many cell phones prior to my iPhone4, but never a smartphone. I got the 4 after realizing I was using my iPod touch for just about everything except making phone calls…
I am happy that Hpweird is coming over to Apple. However, he’s still a schmuck.
I don’t understand the whole physical key board thing. Most of the time the touch keys on the iPhone are bigger than physical keys on other phones.
Agreed. If the virtual keys are too small, then how are a Blackberry’s keys any better? Plus, just rotate to landscape mode and double the size of the keys.
For me, the iPad is too heavy to make a good masturbatory aid. If it was light as a Kindle so I could hold it with one hand for about a half hour, then it’d be perfect.
I don’t know what’s worse. The chafing that must surely be involved in 30 min masturbation sessions, the fact that it takes you a full 30 min to get your nutt, or that you can’t muster the stength to support fewer than 24oz with your full-grown arm for 30 minutes?
ROTFLOL
Good to see Stern get on board. Don Imus has been using a Mac for a long time and has a much better show, although I can’t say it is cause and effect.
Re: the physical keyboard….. there is something to be said about being able to type by ‘feel’ – and that is what a physical keyboard would allow…..
I do a lot of typing on my laptop without looking at the keyboard….. not sure you would be successful typing on an iphone without looking at it.
To bad someone hasn’t made a small case that has a pull out BT keyboard for the iPhone.
Here’s one:
http://www.thinkgeek.com/gadgets/cellphone/e66e/
I type under the table on my iPod all the time, and I do fine (not, it’s not a glass table). Just muscle memory, I guess
Rush has been with apple for 25 years. Howard’s a little late
True, the big fat pumpkinhead is a long time Mac user.
Maybe he just does not like using a touchscreen keyboard.
I know I do not care for it. I got rid of my iPhone precisely because I could never get comfortable with typing on it.
Awesome device to be sure and I loved the interface and apps. I just did not ‘click’ with it for the long haul.
If it wasn’t for those Fandroids Fa Fa Fohai (aka Technobeaver) and that tool JD, I’m sure Howard would be rocking an iPhone too.
The worst part of my drive is hearing Howard praise his POS Droid Pro.
Somehow this entire article has been a TMI.
Tim Cook said that Apple would not cede any markets to its competitors, implying they would be going after the lower priced market and maybe the physical keyboard market. The former is Android’s stronghold and the latter is BB’s. Both must be shaking in their boots should Apple decide to expand their product line.
Wow, you guys don’t get Howard at all. Make sure you actually listen to and know the show before you make all these disparaging comments about him. He’s very funny, talented and extremely smart. He makes my morning drive more than bearable. It’s great to start everyday laughing my head off. . . .
I was living in DC when that asshole lost his job at DC 101. I will never forgive him for the stunt that got him fired, and neither will anyone else who lived there at the time.
Howard Stern is a flaming asshole.
-jcr
Be sure you like “black and white” porn. Oh no. They do not many of those anymore. I wonder how Kindle handles colored images, and videos (mp4, etc.)
CGC