blog.wired.com — Facebook, Netvibes and Meebo all launched new iPhone-optimized versions of their sites this week and all three of them are very nice, but wasn?t one of the points of the iPhone that it offered ?a real web browser??
Aug 16, 2007 View in Crawl 4
gizzymoAug 17, 2007
How did this crap make the front page???
mellertimeAug 18, 2007
I believe the bandwidth is what they were referring to, you were just getting a little too worked up. You go from 1.5 Mbps - 6 Mbps DSL or Cable at home to a 128 Kbps connection and you're bound to notice it.Is it as big a deal as people seem to make it out to be? I don't think so - particularly if the sites you frequent are coded well and not loaded down with ads or other graphics. To top it off, iPhone-centric development (thanks to its hype) has pushed development forward for mobile interfaces in general, and that's a Good Thing (tm) for all mobile users (like those still stuck browsing with their pseudo-browser on a regular cell phone).
dallypAug 18, 2007
Uh there is a digg iphone site...www.digg.com/iphoneI use it on my phone all the time.
Closed AccountAug 18, 2007
www.digg.com/iphone
t3hxAug 18, 2007
The reason why YouTube is h264 is because the iPhone has a hardware h264 decoder. There's no such thing as a hardware FLV decoder (yet). This means that the CPU doesn't have to decode it (FLV takes a fair bit to decode), which means better performance and better battery life. h264 is a way better codec anyway.
tercAug 18, 2007
I guarantee the iPhone displays full web pages better than ANY other phone out there.The guidelines were written for web applications, there is absolutely no need for these website redesigns. It's just nice to have a custom page designed to fit on a 3.5 inch screen.
16x9Aug 19, 2007
Sorry. I'm guess I'm not hip enough to know what that is. Is a "Roseanne" some kind of new fangled street drug that the kids are all hopped up on?
neondietAug 20, 2007
The article author doesn't get it. iPhone'd application web sites are not web sites; they're iPhone web applications. There's a difference. Who says that everything published on the web has to be readable by a browser.
lukehhAug 20, 2007
interesting article, but wrong.It's not about sites working in this browser or not , or creating a 'third space' for AAPL profit and domination. It's bigger than that; it's about interface change. Yes you CAN do normal webpages. on the iphone. great. Except Apple has something entirely new. The mouse is gone.A more apt comparison for the article to have made might have been the shift from text to GUI. First you typed, then you looked, now you touch. Whinning that a proprietary web experience is unfair or splits up the web is like arguing the wheel did the same for foot paths. Well actually the wheel probably DID do the same thing - pedestrians and donkeys were pissed. But now we call them asses and wear them as hood ordainments (both and).Progress is a bitch, but it keeps on trucking.