On Sun, 7 Feb 2010 14:58:34 +0900 Carsten Haitzler (The Rasterman) <ras...@rasterman.com> wrote:
> want. as such pressure is normally senses by radius. your finger is > soft. the harder you press the larger the radius of your touch (up to > a point). so i'd suggest using these first unless u literally have > extra needs. That might be normal for people with really short fingernails, but a lot of women, plus a few men, have longer fingernails, and sometimes even strong fingernails, or fake fingernails. Guitarists sometimes grow long strong fingernails on their string plucking hand, etc. The point is that you cannot make assumptions about soft fingertips in a world where a large percentage of the population will be touching with their fingernails instead. The next person to ask me how you type with long fingernails will get laughed at, women have had no problem doing so for over a hundred years. So, for me at least, and probably for some experienced guitarists and women, the only thing that you get from pressing harder into touch devices is to wear them out faster. You should see the gouge marks in my keyboards. lol Touch devices made for stylus use tend to be tough, your average stylus is about as tough as my fingernails, and usually it makes no difference. The batteries in my ancient Visor wore out before the screen ever even started getting worn. This does not apply to graphics tablet pens, which have some electronics in the pen that my fingernails are lacking, but the tablets tend to be tough for the same reason. In summary, pressure sensitive devices are going to be pressed hard by hard fingernails whether the designers want it or not. So they better be designed to take it, and work well with them.
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