Hilarious Apple iPhone advertising spoof - make sure your fingers are clean!
By Will Park on Wednesday, June 20th, 2007 at 11:37 AM PST In AT&T, Apple, Videos, iPhone
We found this hilarious video on Youtube, spoofing the Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone advertising featuring the “hand.” Everybody’s been so focused on how usable the touchscreen keyboard might be that no one has thought about how smudges will affect actual usage. Check out the hilarious video. You’ve probably seen it before, but not like this!
Side note: we keep our fingers as clean as possible to keep from smudging all our mobile devices - can anybody say Obsessive Compulsive Disorder?
As you know, I’ve been ranting against touch-screens on smartphones for ages. Using fingers rather than a stylus merely adds one more reason why they don’t work!
“Everybody’s been so focused on how usable the touchscreen keyboard might be that no one has thought about how smudges will affect actual usage.”
Posted 13 January on Wireless Watch Japan
http://wirelesswatch.jp/2007/01/13/has-apple-started-a-mobile-computing-revolution/
There are several issues (beyond the no 3rd party apps) at first blush; for starters a touch screen as the ‘only’ input feature - can you say finger grease - seems to ignore the common reality of text messaging.