iphone in trouble over false advertising
The iphone was yesterday slapped on the wrist for a number of complaints toward the product for false advertising. The advert claimed that the iphone could browse all parts of the internet seemlessly. The only thing they didnt mention is that the iphone is compatible with flash or javascript! So that basically rules out alot of websites from being seen on your iphone.! TV marketing and an online marketing campaign were launched only earlier this year claiming that the new generation mac phone can access all parts of the net.
The advert has been banned all together in UK as mac uk have recieved so many complaints. Apple were quoted as saying, “the aim of the ad was to highlight that the iphone can access all websites better than a WAP browser can”.
Bit naughty if you ask me! The advert itself is crystal clear. I tried a website I know to have flash the other day and it wouldnt load….mmmm bit annoying really!
I think you mean to say Java, not Javascript. The two things are named the same, but vastly different. Javascript is supported in full in mobile Safari
You’re over-blowing the whole thing though. Very few sites you use (especially on a regular basis) will use Flash, or especially Java. The only ones I can think of personally are YouTube (converted to H.264 for a way to view it on the iPhone already), and the numerous ads on most pages. The applet itself is not able to scale to the iPhone’s screen, leaving you with a lot of dragging to see it all. Not to mention that there’s no current Flash iteration for *any* mobile, or even for Mac, that is up to the standards necessary. Flash on any other device is limited and versions behind, meaning little compatibility, and on the Mac it’s bloated. Neither of those would improve the situation on the iPhone, but both would waste a ton of battery. It’s silly to expect this from a device when if you had it, you’d rant about the battery life, or the extremely slow loading time of pages with flash (such as many ads), wouldn’t you say?