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Apple iPhone's Ease of Use Encouraging Mobile Internet Usage
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What can you people tell me about when Apple is no longer obligated to AT&T and what they might do? I haven't kept up on it all and I heard that the contract is only 2 years exclusive. Is that true? And what happens after that? Any ideas or speculation??? What about that mandate to open the 700MHz spectrum to any device???
yup
apparently their browsers are able to separate themselves too..!!
i read it in some thread at MR nly!!
apparently their browsers are able to separate themselves too..!!
i read it in some thread at MR nly!!
exactly.... many people think the same way, but you said it quite clearly...
As long as the caps aren't draconian, I don't think it would be a big deal. maybe 5GB/month or something. Now a phone modem/tethering plan or a mobile broadband laptop card plan NEED to be different since you can use much more data on a laptop. Not only because of downloading applications, video streaming, etc.. but because even at the same rated speeds, the data cards in practice have a much better throughput.
And even then, IMO, the best way to do caps (other than not have any!) is to NOT cut the person off, but to lower their bandwidth by 1/2 or something. Or they could have it progressive where your speed starts dropping off once you go over a limit.
Yep, I think Google's website is incredible. I was planning on writing a native RSS reader until I found their online one to be everything I could wish for. and the Ajax is FAST and responsive.
Well the fact that the iPhone uses EDGE and not the Touch doesn't matter at all. Google just sees an IP address and unless they know the whole block AT&T uses to connect your phone to the internet, they wouldn't be able to determine where it's coming from. Otherwise google looks at the user agent which I am not sure if it identifies if it's the touch or iPhone, but I am sure it probably does.
at Least Vancouver is getting an apple store sometime in the next year or so... or so they say. I'm not even holding my breath on that one...
I was in vancouver last fall, and while I was on Robson(?) street, I got a sudden urge to go finally see the iPhone and new macs. You can imagine how COMPLETELY SHOCKED i felt when I went to google maps on my phone (Treo POS) to locate the nearest Apple store. VANCOUVER Canada with no Apple Store!!??! WHAT HORROR! Apple should be ASHAMED of itself. I demand Steve Jobs to build one there immediately!
Wirelessly posted (Mozilla/5.0 (iPod; U; CPU like Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/420.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.0 Mobile/3B48b Safari/419.3)
And how would Google know which radio you were using?
MyJelleo said:
And how would Google know which radio you were using?
It doesn't. It goes by UA. You used your (or a) Touch to post that. The person you quoted used an iPhone. But I bet that was your intention wasn't it?
Competition for Rogers would be VERY welcome! Go Telus ( not that they are a whole lot better)
But I bet that was your intention wasn't it?
Bingo!
All this whining and speculation, when all you really need to know is what UA string the Touch uses....
It would, however, be interesting to know how much of the Iphone traffic is Edge vs. WiFi...
I love the Iphone, I love my Ipod touch, but the one thing that makes it so much better than any other mobile device is the size of the screen, and the "normal" looking internet browser- thats really all. The internet sucked on every other phone because the screens were never big enough to see anything or support anything even resembling what the internet looks like on a PC so they all sucked horribly. I cannot wait until Nextel comes out with a similar phone (they already have but I think it is delayed for some reason). It looks to offer similar features though.
Out of the box browsing experience its king as average users just use what is there (See DOJ busted MS for bundling IE).
Safari is by far the best native phone browser so it makes sense it has the most usage.
RIM still sells twice as much in the US as the overall package is better especially for power users - superior push email, third party apps out of the box, better phone, more form factors, and class leading corporate management infrastructure. But the browser sucks for non optimized content.
Any BB power user uses the free Opera Mini browser with similar scaling and zooming features of Safari and it was available about the same time the iPhone came on the market.
No flash = not "real" Internet like the commercial claims with so many sites using flash. On Windows Mobile you have several "real" Internet options while the iPhone is stuck with fake Internets probably until the SDK arrives
http://www.opera.com/b2b/solutions/mobile/
http://www.skyfire.com/
The creative founder of Apple [Woz] still uses a RIM Blackberry Pearl, so that is saying something (he say its a great smartphone but the native browser sucks)
RIM needs to launch a switch ad campaign: Switched back
Safari is by far the best native phone browser so it makes sense it has the most usage.
RIM still sells twice as much in the US as the overall package is better especially for power users - superior push email, third party apps out of the box, better phone, more form factors, and class leading corporate management infrastructure. But the browser sucks for non optimized content.
Any BB power user uses the free Opera Mini browser with similar scaling and zooming features of Safari and it was available about the same time the iPhone came on the market.
No flash = not "real" Internet like the commercial claims with so many sites using flash. On Windows Mobile you have several "real" Internet options while the iPhone is stuck with fake Internets probably until the SDK arrives
http://www.opera.com/b2b/solutions/mobile/
http://www.skyfire.com/
The creative founder of Apple [Woz] still uses a RIM Blackberry Pearl, so that is saying something (he say its a great smartphone but the native browser sucks)
RIM needs to launch a switch ad campaign: Switched back