Recently I’ve seen several articles like this one about people complaining that the new iPhone will not support a stylus. This is wanted because the touch interface interface is more difficult to use for people with long fingernails. However some people are accusing Apple of misogyny.
If that’s true, that Apple has an ingrained hatred of women, why would you want to support Apple by buying their products? If it’s such a woman hating product why are one third of the owners women and it has some of the highest satisfaction rates of any phone on the market?
Do you think when Apple was considering what to put in the second gen iPhone, when they considered stylus support, perhaps they decided it was too hard or expensive to put it in, decided that it would be hard to support multitouch with styluses, that it did not work well with their interaction model, or some other technical/design reason? Is the only possible reason that Apple hates women? Of course not!
Although I appreciate their frustration, I don’t like this culture of word inflation. Misogyny is a perfectly valid word but it’s rapidly becoming a codeword to mean “ignore me, I’m an unreasonable person”.
