for some content, it is not a gimmick, but it would be for all content. I have seen too many sites try too hard for that niche and ruin their content for everybody else. I am not against a streamlining of content for sure, as I think that would be better for fancy people and their mobile devices and me and my home dial-up Besides, don't the iPhone commercials say it can already do anything on the web? see, already done. ...... I didn't say "a" gimmick, and I'll catch up to you next century
Agreed. Well, then, that's badly executed. The site should display properly for whatever platform you're using to access it. I'm sure this isn't news to you, but I think you're living on borrowed time. If you're going to do dial-up, do you at least have a stylish acoustic-coupled modem?
Yeah, but looking at a full site on a mobile device, while possible, isn't always usable - it's often too tough to read. For instance, I use the southwest.com site a lot, and their iPhone app is simple and very legible. When I'm on my laptop I use their full site.
you just have to listen to their users whine that everything should be changed just for them You can build a nice DCU app and sell it for a buck 99 and pay for your pre-game beer all season, or let the DCU media guy build you one that you won't like
I wouldn't go that far. Or even to say they were substandard. They seem to have decent enough products - though I have never actually owned one. Competition in the phone business could be good if there were more than two or three providers and they didn't have exclusive contracts with phone makers. I should be able to move my cel/smart/whatever phone between carriers freely In the computer business, I think the comoetition works a little better and the good things about the (still only 2) providers get the other side thinking of better ways to do things (or more accurately because there are only 2 and have no real incentive to "create" too much .... copy them from the other guys). But, that's not important now - what is important is that I can read the DC United site for more than 6 months at a time without it having to be completely re-vamped over and over again
If Apple sucks, what does that say about Microsoft, whose operating system is mediocre and has been since is conception...
That's funny... if you actually believe that. How about that website? Will it have Flash? Some devices don't support flash.
I've used Microsoft products since the DOS days. (I've also used every Apple product since the IIe.) Until the latest version, Windows has been a sloppy, error-filled execution of a good idea. Wrapping a windowing UI around a primitive core like DOS was convenient, but a terrible idea for a solid product. Windows 7 has been a big improvement, but they're only now doing what they should have been doing all along. The whole 'rivalry' between Microsoft and Apple is a bit of a joke anyway. Both companies make products that are useful and more suitable depending upon what you want to do. Why people want to make it a religious war is beyond me.
I have trouble getting past the smugness of some Apple owners who think that they're somehow superior for using Apple products. I will say that I have had to reboot my Apple laptop once in the last 18 months when I didn't want to. Once. I still reboot my Windows boxes pretty much weekly.
Microsoft, not PC. Lotsa people use PCs without having anything to do with MS. And does the offseason get better or worse if I slam both Apple and MS really hard?
'Tis the season for slamming everything. I just don't get computer flame wars. If you like something, use it. If you don't, don't use it. I don't flame someone for their use of some brand of TV or DVD player. If it works for them, great. It just seems that people have too much of their identities wrapped up in the kind of computer they use.