August 10, 2007
On swearing with your iPhone
peterme.com :: Lookit that! iPhone knows I’m a grown-up!
Apple assumes its users are adults, and if they want to swear, they’re not going to make the user feel needlessly uncouth by claiming their perfectly good words are “misspelled.”
It seems like a small thing, but it’s an important detail in the design. Nearly every other computer system refuses to recognize curse words, and, in effect, condescend to their users. Apple, by recognizing the reality of English discourse, exhibits respect for their customers.
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Which is great until you fat finger the D and the F when talking about ducks.