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.
This is news? Who cares? My mother bought a Nikon Camera. She dumped Canon.
Heretic!
Jony Ive just designed the next revolutionary product, the iNail.
Press Release by Apple, Inc.:
Apple releases the next amazing product. Introducing the iNail. The first retractable fingernail solution that allows users to customize their fingernails from millions of colors to any custom photo or design from within iPhoto, while still looking great. iNail is the perfect solution for people that like to keep their nails long and still use any of our iOS device including iPhones, iPads, and iPod touches.
They can retract up to the finger tip. They are made of super thin, anodized aluminum with an OLED LCD Retina Display. We’ve also developed a remarkable 12 hour battery, with a lightning fast charge time of just 1 hour to 80% charge, 2 hours to 100% full charge. It uses a micro MagSafe connection, that uses either standard USB 2.0 or ThunderBolt connection at the other end.
Users can customize the nails into any color of their choice including any photos in their iPhoto library, which is synced via Bluetooth from their Mac.
Prices start at $39, and can be covered under the AppleCare Protection Plan for iNail. Covered The APP for iNail does not cover chips, scratches or accidental damage. But it does provide tech support to assist customers in applying the nails and any defects in manufacturing and the battery for 2 additional years.
Release date: May 16, 2011
You really have to see these in person, it is truly magical!
I found this article a while back and it certainly worked for me. Perhaps not for everyone, but a little perseverance, practice, and some of the hints discussed thereafter, it should worthy of serious consideration.
Another hint, keeping the thumbs as flat as possibly really helped as well. And as my wife will attest, it really helped overcome the long fingernails issue.
http://gigaom.com/apple/quick-tip-drastically-increase-iphone-typing-speed-and-accuracy/
You forgot to include people who are stuck with a touch screen only android in the group who prefer physical keyboards. It’s awful typing on my HTC Hero, the device my company chose to replace my blackberry curve with, I hated typing on the BB but it was multitudes better than this “Zero”. That said typing on the wife’s iPhone 3GS is nirvana in comparison.
Who is this Howard, and who cares?