"News" <News@Group.name> wrote in message
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>> So, what we've discovered, is that phones with full HTML browsers (like
>> iPhones and Android) that default to "full" HTML sites use more HTML than
>> phones that default to mobile/WAP sites. Imagine that!
>>
>> So, in effect, what they've really "discovered" was that iPhone OS users
>> received the majority of AdMob's mobile advertising, and view far more
>> HTML pages.
>>
>>> Congrats everyone!
>>
>> Enjoy. What'll you discover next? TV viewers watch more TV advertising
>> than book readers?
>
>
> And that iToy users are suckers, a target rich environment, for online ad
> placement and exploits. Enjoy your ethereal status, fanbois!

It's hard to blame the "fanbois" for the hand they're dealt. They (at least
in the US) get unlimited data and a phone that defaults to full size web
pages instead of mobile XHTML/WAP pages.

What I miss on the iPhone browser (and maybe it's hidden in a setting
somewhere and I just haven't found it) is a "mobile view" setting like most
mobile HTML browsers offer, that use multiple user agents depending on the
browser's current mode setting to request either mobile or full websites.
Sometimes I want the "real" web experience, but usually I'd rather have a
quick-loading mobile/WAP formatted site designed for a small screen if one's
available.

Regardless of Safari Mobile's rendering abilities, (which are quite good for
a mobile browser), pinching and spreading while surfing is for the birds,
and simpler web pages are just more efficient and easier to read on a small
screen. This probably explains the popularity of iPhone apps that reformat
web content into easier to read forms, like USA Today's app that presents
the headline stories from the USA Today site in an email/RSS feed reader
type fashion.