On Jan 13, 10:57 am, Rick Schramm <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Jan 12, 7:07 pm, Jorge Chamorro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > On 12/01/2009, at 23:09, Rick Schramm wrote:
>
> > > One rule of thumb is that anything that targets the iPhone
> > > specifically is a waste of time.
>
> > The iPhone, specifically, requires a rather different UI than a
> > desktop. Thanks to Apple for understanding this so well, because if
> > not, we'd have yet another flavor of the (crappy) Windows Mobile UI,
> > and would still be surfing the same (crappy) WAP pages they've been
> > surfing up until right now.
>
> Substitute "exclusively" for "specifically."
I'll support that. As an example, visit the following site using
iPhone and then any desktop browser and compare the functionality:
<URL: http://www.qantas.com >
When you visit on iPhone, you get a very minimal site to check on
flight details, that's it. You can't book a flight or modify a
booking.
When you visit using a desktop, it's quite difficult to find where to
check flight details (it's under the "Plan" menu item).
Seems to me Apple spent a lot of time and effort to put a full-
featured browser in a mobile device, but some web sites think they
know better and refuse to deliver full functionality. Not very
clever.
Further, if you visit the site using iPhone over a slow connection
(say 2g) it constantly times out and is unusable. Now that is really
dumb.
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Rob
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