Hayao Miyazaki, one of the greatest animators known to man, doesn’t seem to like the iPad. Heck, he even compared it to masturbation gestures and described it as a “game machine-type thing”.
It turns out, he’s a little bit of a technophobe. He doesn’t own a TV, fax, computer - not even a DVD player to watch his creations at home. How is he supposed to pull out all those great movies? Look, I don’t know. Thing is, the Neppuu interviewed him and here’s what Kotaku reports:
“In an interview in the July issue of “Neppuu”, the Studio Ghibli published pamphlet, the famed animator does not pull any punches when discussing the iPad, or what he calls the “game machine-type thing” that people are “stroking with strange gestures”.
“For me, there is no feeling of admiration or no excitement whatsoever,” Miyazaki said about the iPad. “It’s disgusting. On trains, the number of those people doing that strange masturbation-like gesture is multiplying.”
Miyazaki also noted that he also got “fed up” when everyone on the trains started reading manga and then later when everyone began using cell phones on the trains to presumably send text messages.”
Well then, I guess we’ll never see a Studio Ghibli app on our iPads? Sorry, but now I have to back to studying interaction gestures.
