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Re: The iPhone obsession

#11
Lots of mobile browsers have iPhone in their UA strings to work around browser detects that obsessed web developers have set up. Do all traffic market share reporters work around that problem? Most probably do, but we can’t be sure.

Which browsers do that?

Re: The iPhone obsession

#12
At least in the US, a lot of designers have an iPhone (and so do their friends). I think it's also likely that the iPhone was the first mobile device they have ever used the internet on. It's easy to fall into the trap of thinking that since me and all my friends only use the iPhone everyone else does to.

Re: The iPhone obsession

#13
post #2

First time I heard Quirksmode curse like a sailor. Regardless, the reason I can't develop for a Nokia, Blackberry, or HTC is because I don't have a Nokia, Blackberry, or HTC. I have an iPhone. It's pretty easy to develop webapps for it because if it looks good in desktop Safari, it will probably look good in iPhone Safari. I don't even know the browsers that other phones have. I know Opera Mini is on many phones and…

I think this article is aimed directly at you then. And clearly you disagree, sounds like because you don't feel like it.

A lot of us don't really want Apple (or Google, or x, or y, or z) to be a monopoly though. And perhaps the people who do follow the advice to consider the other browsers and will help keep things on an even keel.

Re: The iPhone obsession

#14
While this article curses a lot to get attention, I think it will fall on deaf ears because I do not have other phones to test on. Unless a simulator or emulator is readily available for download on my platform of choice, I will not test against it.

Re: The iPhone obsession

#15
Besides, what will happen when the operators abandon the economically untenable flat rate for iPhone data traffic?

Er, what? Operators are expanding those flat rate plans to other phones (I have a unlimited everything month-to-month plan for $80 right now, on a non-AT&T operator).

Re: The iPhone obsession

#16

It's not about the iPhone, it's about Webkit. He seems to forget the fact that hardware sales doesn't translate into actual internet usage. The internet outside of iPhone, Android, and Palm is so terrible that barely anyone even bothers to use it. What do those three platforms have in common? Webkit!

Nokia's browser is also based on WebKit.

Re: The iPhone obsession

#17

It's not about the iPhone, it's about Webkit. He seems to forget the fact that hardware sales doesn't translate into actual internet usage. The internet outside of iPhone, Android, and Palm is so terrible that barely anyone even bothers to use it. What do those three platforms have in common? Webkit!

Nokia's browser is also based on WebKit.

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Re: The iPhone obsession

#18

It's not about the iPhone, it's about Webkit. He seems to forget the fact that hardware sales doesn't translate into actual internet usage. The internet outside of iPhone, Android, and Palm is so terrible that barely anyone even bothers to use it. What do those three platforms have in common? Webkit!

Yes but in PPK's words: There is no “WebKit on mobile!” - http://www.quirksmode.org/webkit.html

Re: The iPhone obsession

#19

Who are all these people with Nokia's? I have never met one.

Seriously? Or is this sarcasm. Here in Norway, Nokia has the largest share of the mobile phone market overall, and their smartphones are quite nice (and popular). At the moment, I'm trying to decide between buying an iPhone and a Nokia N97.

Wouldn't the N900 be a better match for the iPhone?
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