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> There was this long song and dance about how apps were to be replaced by web pages Yeah and the first iPhones were terrible if you didn't jailbreak them
by type0 3y ago
> There was this long song and dance about how apps were to be replaced by web pages
Yeah and the first iPhones were terrible if you didn't jailbreak them
- stephen_g 3y agoTerrible compared to what? At the time, mobile applications were universally pretty crap. Browsers were atrocious, not being able to render real CSS or anything (they’d give you a simplified broken layout). I didn’t have the first iPhones (my first was the iPhone 4) but I had a first generation iPod Touch, and Safari felt pretty magical at the time compared to anything else on the market. The capacitive screen, multitouch, being able to decently render pages - lots of stuff we totally take for granted now… The App Store became publicly available just one year after the original iPhone was released too - people seem to make out as if Apple held on for years and years but the SDK was announced less than six months after the iPhone’s release and was made available to developers a couple of months later.
- vel0city 3y agoOpera Mobile would render pages with heavy CSS (for the time) pretty accurately. Even with Pocket IE, a lot of pages did render pretty decently. I was able to browse and post on phpBB boards and what not with it. The browser built-in on the various Symbian devices I owned were also pretty decent. They were built on WebKit, supported real CSS, working JavaScript support, and more. When you're talking about browsers on mobiles, are you talking just WAP browsers on dumbphones or actual smartphones?
- golergka 3y agoTo be fair, Symbian apps were quite okay-ish. I had Nokia 6600 and it had a lot of great games and apps. Of course, when Apple finally launched the Appstore, and apps there were able to use iPhone's touchscreen, it was over for Symbian.