Does the iPhone Suck for Web Surfing?
There are approximately 232,000,000 Internet users in North America, and Apple sold about 500,000 iPhones last week. That means that around .21% of all North American Internet users have iPhones. While it’s a little early to look at iPhone browser statistics, some major US sites that I am aware of are getting about 0.04% of their traffic from iPhones.
This may indicate that most iPhone users do not use the device for primary Internet access. I’m guessing that this number will go up, but not too high unless the AT&T service that iPhones work on stops sucking. Apparently the service in most areas will have the speed of dial up - ouch!
Granted the iPhone is one of the most innovative device, from a UI and features perspective. But the success of a product about total user experience, and dial up speeds are unusable to those of us used to broadband.
The Safari browser included in the iPhone also doesn’t have support for Flash. Unfortunately, many high traffic sites have hitched their cool features wagon to Flash and Flex. Of course, who would want to download an 800k Flex widget at these speeds?
July 6th, 2007 at 9:43 am
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