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The Tippy Type makes typing with long nails less tedious
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As a straight dude, my first internal knee-jerk reaction was "this is such a stupid solution to a stupid problem", but then my mental "Don't be an asshat because not everybody is like you" guard rail kicked in.
Clearly this is a product for a market of people that it works for and I'm happy for them. Enjoy your neat keyboard thing, long nailed peeps.
you're absolutely right. this is a stupid solution for a stupid problem. But you're also right that this is a product for a special subset of people that need this and whom this works for.
Both can be true.
That's the nice thing about capitalism (free market economics actually): You don't have a authority that decides what is useful and useless, what gets produced and what doesn't. Because in the End, everything is useless. I have a robotvac because I'm too lazy to vacuum myself. Stupid and Lazy. I have a Vacuum cleaner because I'm too lazy to use a Broom. Stupid and Lazy.
So yes, it's both. Stupid solution to a stupid problem. But it's also a great product that solves a problem that a subset of our population has and therefore useful.
Exactly. There are a ton of stupid products out there, and ecosystems around those stupid products, and I think that's awesome. Variety is the spice of life after all. For example:
Yet each of those has facilitated variety. Cars are an expression of what we value, hair styles are a huge part of our identities, and plus-sized product lines can build confidence and have created a market all their own. I certainly won't ever understand a ton of the products that exist, but I like that those products exist, because it means that there's a ton of variety in how we live our lives.
So yeah, keep making weird solutions to unnecessary problems. But at the same time, let's try to do it in a way that doesn't destroy our planet.
tippy taps!
Good catch!
A lot of people in this thread knee-jerk hating on the nails don't realise that it's just culturally-entrenched misogyny. More people need a "Don't be an asshat because not everybody is like you" guard rail.