It’s a man’s phone

As a woman, I’ve slowly been written out of the phone world and the phone market. That extra “.2″ inches of screen size on each upgrade simply means that I can no longer do what I enviously observe men do every day: Check messages one-handed while carrying groceries or a bag; type a quick note while on a moving bus or a train where I have to hold on not to fall.

Anecdotally I once tried to put my iPad in my back pocket and it didn’t fit. As a man, I’ve been written out of the tablet world as those devices are clearly created for females with handbags only.</sarc>

It’s a Man’s Phone →

(via Michel on Facebook, from whom I totally stole that anecdote)

Published by Bramus!

Bramus is a frontend web developer from Belgium, working as a Chrome Developer Relations Engineer at Google. From the moment he discovered view-source at the age of 14 (way back in 1997), he fell in love with the web and has been tinkering with it ever since (more …)

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