Nope. The ones I’ve seen use their knuckles, or awkwardly use the pads of their fingers. Saying this as a woman who doesn’t like long nails.
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Also a woman who doesn’t like long nails. They creep me out, especially when they start to curl.
The one who use their finger tips, make a very distinct clicking noise too.
Nope.
Time for everyone's favourite statistics lesson, "anecdotal evidence don't mean shit"!
OP did say average after all.
The prevelance of touchscreens much rather results in people lacking skills/efficiency/speed when using a regular computer keyboard
Ever gone through a Walmart checkout?
I've never seen longer nails than on those cashiers, and they have to press buttons and touch screens all the damn time.
I think its more like a fashion thing. I still see it with a specific type of woman
What, don’t wanna talk about it?
...is she gonna walk with them and grow 6 feet higher?
I sorta assumed nails had a set length they grow to, much like hair
Grrrrrl.
I have 0 struggles when using touch screen with long nails
It's trivial to use a touchscreen with nails of arbitrary length if you're used to it. You can easily just use the side, where the cuticle is. If you put on acrylics you'll have some trouble adjusting, but if you let it grow naturally you'll adjust as they grow
Resistive ones worked better with nails than wothout them.
Resistive touchscreens are soo 2005
Damn, they were painful to use. I remember having a sore finger after an hour of scrolling on my first ever phone. It was an LG Java phone.
I've seen nail polish that supposedly allowed them to work with touch screens, kinda like gloves that work with them. I dunno how well it works; I don't paint my nails (or have long nails to begin with). I just remember seeing it on the shelf while at Walmart and getting shampoo.
The thing that confuses me about those nail polishes is like, anyone who uses nail polish to the point where they'd consider that would also be using a clear top coat, which seals the nail and would prevent the conductive nail polish from doing it's "thing"
...also it wouldn't work on most devices because most screens are capacitive, not resistive. Like you can use the backside of your nail on your screen with normal nail polish on and it'll work, because it's about the surface area and capacitive difference, not about closing a circuit
Lead-based nail polish
Intentionally making contact w your nails sounds awful. Who wants to listen to tap tap tap? How would that even work anyway? The polish isn't gonna be on the tip, would you have to turn your fingers upside down?
I tend to think that eventually they will only have fake long nails, and only when getting dressed up for something fancy.
I'm general in the future teens will make memes about long nails like they do now for something like the hamburger phone, or JNCOs, or whatever 00's trend.
Eh technology will change again, before we see any major changes. I remember reading some fifteen years ago that due to texting on an oldschool mobile phone, our thumbs might evolve in a new way because we all of a sudden used thumbs in a new way. Some scientists predicted we'd started using thumbs for tasks we'd otherwise use our index fingers for.
It could, however, make a social trend for shorter fingernails (primarily on women, I imagine). Just meaning people are more likely to trim their nails shorter.
I know, but it might be a short trend (pardon the pun). It's also not a trend currently supported by my personal anecdotal evidence.