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There might be other workarounds coming to the "pocketable big screen" paradigm.
There is already a device out now with one of those roll-up "paper screens." I would be surprised if someone isn't expanding those laser virtual keyboards into a full, interactive screen concept. But neither of these would exactly qualify as "hand-held." |
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"(iphone) beat Palm, Motorola and Nokia put together in the first 90 days"
Must have meant in totals sales for that time period - not market peneration. |
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Here's a more detailed breakdown of the market share of browsers for December 2007:
http://marketshare.hitslink.com/report.aspx?qprid=10 iPhone is the leading mobile browser out there, overtaking Windows Mobile (Windows CE). Symbian (Series 60) is farther down. |
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Market share can be easily distorted by adding or intentionally omitting context. If the phrase is used without qualifiers, take it with a boulder of salt.
For instance, Apple likes to trumpet that it has more personal computing share, with its Macs, than certain conventional PC manufacturers. While that is true, it's a disingenuous statistic, given that they are actually competing against a platform type (ie, ALL PC manufacturers) rather than the one or two bottom feeders in that spectrum. In that sense, they have something like 15% last time I checked (and it took a LONG fight to get there). Bottom line: Jobs is a showman, and when he's got the pulpit, he controls the look and feel of the show-- details be damned. ;) |
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Maybe we should try coming up with a different useragent string that gets past the filter so we receive iPhone sites, but we will show up differently in their logs... Here's one that works with GMail, at least: Quote:
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about:config?prefname=general.useragent.override&prefvalue=Mozilla%2F5.0+%28N8x0+like+iPhone%3B+U%3B+Linux+like+Mac+OS+X%3B+ARM%3B+en%29+AppleWebKit%2F420%2B+%28Gecko%2C+like+KHTML%29 Code:
Edit: That doesn't set it to default, but to ""; don't do it. |
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The iPhone's browser is not the entire story here. Understand that as a web site developer, in order to build a site that supoprt the iPhone's screen and resolution, all a developer needed to do was change the stylesheet (simplifying, but really, its that simple). For the IT, supporting a more finger-friendly Internet would go a long way towards Nokia's vision of a mobile device in this size and ability class.
Another key note: ATT users had to purchase the iPhone with an unlimited data plan. This means that users had more incentive to use the mobile internet anywhere, not just teatherd and not just at a hotspot. The iPhone showed that the INternet when you can have it anytime is very accessible, and very wanted. Combined with the CSS/site recommendations from Apple, the lack of official native applications - making web apps the place to go - this give the iPHone a distinct advantage that NOkia would be well to play into in the next editions of the IT. Sure, they couldn't; but then people would pander that iPHone users just don't know enought and drunk too much kool-aid ;) |
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