“A pairing of the two most hyped tech products of the year: Facebook released what is arguably the single best iPhone-customized website to date at iphone.facebook.com. Like the Netvibes iPhone site which launched late yesterday, it isn’t much to look at in a normal browser. But open that thing up in an iPhone and you’ve got a very usable site,” Michael Arrington reports for TechCrunch.
“I have not seen a better iPhone website than this one. If you have, let me know. A lot of startups are going to look to this as the gold standard. At least for now,” Arrington reports.
Full article, with iPhone screenshots, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
So why do you have to dumb-down a web site for iPhone? I thought the whole point was “the real internet, not WAP”, per SJ.
The clicking, dragging and flash stuff I understand.
If ever you wanted a sign of the success of the iPhone this kind of thing is it. Sure some sites have mobile versions but how many go to the effort of tailoring an access point for a single device? In this instance it’s not even because they have to, it’s because they want to maximize the experience.
This is a prime example of widespread technology adopting itself to a product.
Apple should be proud.
I still won’t buy a iPhone though. Not yet.
I’m doing just fine with my laptop which I can control the security (unlike the iPhone), combined with my slim phone which is “just a phone with a long battery life” that I can take anywhere and don’t have to recharge so often.
Since most of the time I need to charge my MacBook Pro, I’m using the internet for considerable time.
The iPhone just doesn’t fit any need I have. If I was constantly mobile in a large city where carrying a laptop would be a hassle, then perhaps a iPhone would be more desireable.
I really don’t like the security problems plaquing the iPhone right now.
Of course you want simpler sites…
Though brilliantly convenient, and as beautiful as the iPhone is to look at and use, the size of the screen is still too small for ordinary browsing… just not comfortable.
Less is more.
Mammmy Boy–‘I really don’t like the security problems plaquing the iPhone right now.’
Didn’t your Mammmy show you how to floss?
English spoken here.
Oh great a CIA site, Working with AT&T who is in bed with the NSA.
@Mommiesboy
“I really don’t like the security problems plaquing the iPhone right now.”
I do not own a iPhone but; What “security problems” are you talking about. The FUD spread by M$ or the other telcos and phone manufacturers or the FUD from the dvoraks and enderlees of the world. Name one REAL threat! or go back to the basement in mommies house.
“So why do you have to dumb-down a web site for iPhone? I thought the whole point was ‘the real internet, not WAP’, per SJ.”
It’s a 3.5″ screen. There’s only so much internet you can have in your pocket.
@Mammmy Boy
Sounds like you are still trying to convince yourself that you don’t want the iPhone. Good luck with that.
Peace and Hair Grease.
So when does iPhone.macdailynews.com debut?
ROTFLMAO.
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“It’s a 3.5″ screen. There’s only so much internet you can have in your pocket.”
Perfect, just perfect.
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MDN word “showed” as in that showed them.
Thankfully there’s an assbook.com so we can tell who’s who. Sometimes all you need is the angle of the smile.
MadMac:
It is not a web site, it is an iPhone application.