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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by Phillipharryt on Sunday July 14, 2019 @11:22PM (#20437880)
The N95 and the iphone both sucked for web browsing. Websites just weren't made for small screens, you had to zoom in so far and links were hard to click. I wouldn't say the iPhone's browsing experience was any better than the rest, but perhaps that unlimited data plan (not bandwidth) changed things up.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by rusk on Monday July 15, 2019 @06:28AM (#20439463)
In the iPhone's defense, vs the other smart phones I had used up until I got my iPhone 4, it was the first one to have a web browser that worked reasonably well on all non-mobile websites, and it was that factor alone at the time was enough to get me hooked.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by toasterlovin on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:34AM (#20441192)
I would argue that tap to zoom on desktop sites on the iPhone worked better than most “mobile optimized” sites.
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Re:Jony Ive’s Mistakes: When Beautiful Design Is Bad Design by rusk on Monday July 15, 2019 @10:38AM (#20441229)
along with reader mode, and a vertically integrated rendering engine
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