Engadget.com has launched a beta version of Engadget for Apple iPhone and iPod touch users:
For obvious reasons, we’re not really big believers in optimizing Engadget for individual devices or platforms. Despite the unrelenting number of requests for an iPhone-optimized version of Engadget, we thought we’d let Apple stand by its whole “the real internet in your pocket” thing. And then we ran the numbers. We could hardly believe it.
So far in 2008, the iPhone, iPhone 3G, and iPod touch account for some 95.8% of all mobile views on the site. We’re not even kidding. It’s pretty hard to argue with something like that, so we’re rolling out a new beta version of Engadget optimized for the iPhone at i.engadget.com.
Full article, with screenshots, here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “MacVicta” for the heads up.]
MacDailyNews Note: As many of you know, the Mobile Safari (iPhone, iPod touch) versions of MacDailyNews and iPodDailyNews are currently in the shop for repairs. We hope to have them back online ASAP as 98.8% of all mobile page views on our sites come from iPhone (83.7%) and iPod touch (15.1%) users. Thank you for your patience.
I have a touch and have no problems with regular web sites. Why does everyone want to “optimize” for mobile devices. Is it necessary to optimize?
Engadget is a technology website, not an apple or iphone website. They cover everything related to tech.
They’re saying that every visiter who visits their site on a mobile phone is an iphone user, therefore, they are making an iphone-specific version of engadget for those users. It will have general tech news, the same news that the regular engadget site has, it will just be formatted for the iphone’s screen size.
There is a good and bad with customizing a site for the iPhone… sortof…
The iPhone can handle normal web, so sites don’t need to do anything special for it, sites that do create a custom version for the iPhone kinda give the opposite impression which is sortof a bad thing…
However if the “customization” is more reducing the amount of data required for a page load, or organizing the info so it displays in the native resolution of the iPhone (less zooming required) and maybe reduces some of the ads is (IMHO) a good thing.
How come the Zune is not listed?
@el guapo
MrScrith
Thank you, that answered my question.
MDN mobile ? link
Are there any sites that are optimized for the Zune? Maybe MDN would like to do it?
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How is this possible?
Clearly iPhones don’t work.
I visit MDN and Engadget daily on mobile devices (I own a Touch and a WinMo PPC). My PPC uses Opera Mobile which is actually fantastic at displaying full webpages, but doesn’t have the ease of Safari Mobile.
And as far as keyboards go, I type more errors on my PPC with a PHYSICAL keyboard than I do with my Touch. And my Touch I type with one hand faster than I type the PPC with two (it’s near impossible to handle with one).
These manufacturers really need to step back, stop criticizing on screen input, and improve it like Apple so has.
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