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    mollytjm
    Sep 11 10:14 AM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    the size is a limitation for all of the developers but the iphone has apps developers working overtime and no one else does. soon, most things will be formatted to be played on an iphone.
    eventually the screen will be a 'holocast' and projected in front of the device. at that point we'll have a very real portable computer.
    until then, the iphone blows everyone else out of the water, and is, as Bubley says, the 'best effort'... but it's not only the best effort...it's far above the others.
    i love Apple products and own the stock, but i do think it would be more beneficial to Apple if those of us who know the products well, would just patiently explain why they are top rated and better, comparatively. PC magazine already says the new iPods are top rated and make the other players look clunky.
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    vassar
    Sep 11 09:38 AM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    If you " WANT the real PC Internet on a mobile device", get a Windows Mobile device. You'll have the crashes, lockups, slow downs, nested menus, registry and everything else.

    If you want the best web experience on a 3 inch screen, get an iPhone or an iPod Touch.

    If you want FLASH (or Silverlight), use your laptop. FLASH does not equate with 'proper web experience'. It is a slow resource hog even on a 'real' computer.

    Bottom Line: Supporting proprietary formats on the Web is not where things are going. Before complaining about the iPhone, try rendering a web page on a Blackberry, WinMobile device or better yet, a Palm Treo!     Reply
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    SouthBeached
    Genius
    Sep 11 07:34 AM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    Quite right XamaX. The iPhone should be rebranded the 'godphone'. Since I got mine I've become smarter (up 721% in the markets YTD), more sexy (dumped ageing wife for hottie young millionaire chick) and quit work (since the iPhone goes to work for me dressed in my clothes, and is actually better at my job since it says "Boom" and "Wouldn't it be cool" all day and co workers caress its UI). I now live in South Beach in a 10,000 sq ft condo I bought for $100 (down from 10 mill) just flaming innocent folk on blog posts all day. Reply
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    DeanB
    Sep 11 02:56 AM
    My Website
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    I'm continuously amazed by the attitudes of iPhone fans. In this post I go out of my way to point out that the device has the current best-in-class web performance but still get flamed because I mention its (few) limits.

    Not only that, but in a previous post of mine I pointed the finger at network problems (ie not the phone) for the lacklustre reported 3G performance in the US, and yet I still get comments such as XamaX's.

    Don't you realise that this almost religious over-reaction is counterproductive? I know people who specifically don't want one because of the uncool "enthusiast" connotations.

    The fact is that many websites have Flash. Currently, the iPhone doesn't render them. Java is missing, too. Hence the UK Advertising Standards Authority recently banning one of Apple's ads for being misleading when it said "all the parts of the internet are on the iPhone."

    In terms of the perennial question of "Do people WANT the real PC Internet on a mobile device?", the answer is some do, some don't, for some sites, some of the time. In certain cases a mobile-specific site is convenient and more useable, but in other instances it's incredibly frustrating if you're trying to use a familiar feature and it's not there. The best sites (eg Google) offer you both an optimised version and the "real" PC one.

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    dig
    Sep 10 09:23 PM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    android will be incredibly mediocre out of the gate Reply
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    dig
    Sep 10 09:22 PM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    get an iphone and stop complaining Reply
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    XamaX
    Sep 10 05:55 PM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    Man, the iPhone 3G lets me get into my online banking system and do anything I do on my iMac. There is nothing more incompatibility prone than an online banking system - they're created by PC winblows geeks - and you don't wanna get hung up when you're, for instance, buying some more AAPL or making any kind of payment.

    Now I can do that while tanning at the beach and my experience has been nothing but smooth and wonderful, snappy and efficient!

    Get a clue. Flash is anything but mobile, stating such a thing is spelling your ignorance. It's been rejected by Apple because it is power hungry, heavy and hard on a machine as powerful as the iPhone. And they don't make it any more powerful these days!

    And, now that you're at it, grab the phone and yank the dudes behind that clumsy web site - you sound like all those clueless mindless erhm people that claimed the iPhone had difficulties in 3G when it was mostly the network going into saturation - I know this for a fact since I worked for Ericsson network planning division precisely planning a new 3G network.     Reply
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    g_skorich
    Sep 10 04:46 PM
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    one of the things i dislike about browsing the web on my iphone is when i get to a page, say cnn.com and the site directs me to the mobile site or when i get to a site and it tells me that it does not support my browser type. another is when a friend send me a link to some video on YouTube and I click on the link and I get a message stating that the video is not able to run on the iphone. certainly not deal breakers, i love my iphone Reply
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    Sunil Jain
    Sep 10 04:44 PM
    My Website
    Complete Web Browsing On Your Cell Phone? Not Yet [view article]
    Even when your handset has infinite RAM, CPU and support for various technologies (including flash), it will still be difficult to get a real web browsing experience because your handsets will still be limited by screen size and input mechanisms (like use of a mouse and keyboard in most cases). Developer/Companies develop web pages for PC web. The automatic transcoding/conversion of web pages for mobile handsets, by handsets, network or both, is only best-effort. Also, just because you can do it, doesn't mean that you should, or assume that somehow user is interesting in browsing the entire site consisting of 250 pages (think of the nightmare traversing this website using the keys on your handset; it becomes totally useless)! If companies are interested in a presence on the "mobile web", they need to have a mobile strategy that should include designing their site from scratch for mobile (and hopefully include mobile-only-centric features such as mobile ads, location APIs, telephony APIs, etc.). Reply
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    uncle mike
    Sep 10 12:24 AM
    NBC Did Not Drop, Dump or Ditch Silverlight in Favor of Flash [view article]
    of course they did it,s the business stupid not some form of entertainment. isn,t it? Reply
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    jack dee
    Sep 09 12:49 PM
    NBC Did Not Drop, Dump or Ditch Silverlight in Favor of Flash [view article]
    Carefull Dan , you could ruin Seeking Alpha rep as a MSFT bashing site. In fact they might even dump you for not playing the fanboy game.

    :)     Reply
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    daveybrown
    Sep 09 12:09 PM
    My Website
    Breaking: Microsoft Announces Future Support For H.264 In Silverlight [view article]
    adobe has supported h.264 since december of last year so I don't know where MSFT gets off talking about providing "higher" quality. h.264 support will only put them on par with what adobe started providing almost a year ago.

    labs.adobe.com/wiki/in...     Reply
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    F. Andy
    Seidl
    Sep 09 10:57 AM
    My Website
    Google's Chrome May Be Great, But Will It Matter? [view article]
    Yes, it matters.

    The interesting questions to me are not if Chrome (beta) is ready for prime time (it is not) or which established browser will suffer more (they all will.) What I find more interesting is that it appears to have all the trappings of a disruptive technology hiding in plain sight and that most techno-types don't recognize this because they are caught up in the techie details of this beta release.

    I wrote more about these ideas here:

    Google Chrome: Disruptive Technology
    faseidl.com/public/blo...

    Unpolished (Google) Chrome May Yet Sparkle
    faseidl.com/public/ite...     Reply
  • commenter
    CreativeBlog
    ger
    Sep 05 01:10 PM
    The Gloves Are Off: Adobe Targets Microsoft's Enterprise Video Market Lead [view article]
    This analysis fails to discuss Silverlight, which is being used widely for prerecorded content, advertising, contnet, and live content (such as the Olympic streaming or the DNC streaming coverage). So Microsoft continues to be the best choice for live content, but it's really ADBE that should worry, as Silverlight provides a more affordable, higher quality streaming option that uses the same technology (visual studio and C#) that IT professionals know and trust. Silverlight includes DRM without extra costs, and doesn't require extra server licenses. I'd expect Flash to loose marketshare to Silverlight, or the growth of Flash will at least be limited. Reply
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    neutrino23
    Sep 03 02:16 PM
    Google's Chrome May Be Great, But Will It Matter? [view article]
    Chrome adoption will be slow. Most people just don't care that much. In order to use Chrome you have to actively go out and find it, download it and choose to run it. Customers need someone continually reminding them to choose something else. This is Apple's advantage in having over 200 stores. People will need a compelling reason to switch. Perhaps in two years they will come up with one. In the meantime Firefox, Safari and IE will continue to develop. I wish them well but I doubt they'll take the world by storm.

    One interesting point is that Chrome shares the same open-source code base with Safari and with the browser used by Nokia and some others.     Reply
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