On Nov 7, 7:49 pm, Larry <no...@home.com> wrote:
> What constitutes a successful web browser in 2010. A web browser's job
> is to play the internet's web-based content....text, media, spam
> (dammit), pictures, graphs, and information. If it fails to play what
> the web designers have used in their page design, it's worthless!
>
> In the past, we all put up with some pretty shoddy excuses for web
> displays on sellphone-based microcomputers. We called it WAP,
> officially. Users had other names for it you wouldn't repeat at a
> church social or other social gathering before everyone was drunk and
> naked. It left us with a legacy of, frankly speaking, "It Sucks!"
>
> The equipment got better. The processors got faster without requiring a
> blower-cooled CPU that ate the batteries in under an hour. Memory got
> better, too, and all the silicon got much much cheaper to deploy.
> Remember when your notebook computer nearly always needed an outlet to
> power it because the "extended" battery was a 30 minute battery and heat
> poured out of it like a hair dryer? Going past a few simple emails
> headed into unknown territory of shutdowns. New netbooks run for 8 to
> 15 hours with the display so bright you can actually see it, almost,
> outside! We've come a LONG way.
>
> But, smartphones started using that most precious commodity we were
> charging $2/KB for...bandwidth. It's why WAP was invented. You could
> still charge them a horrible rate for data (but never as high as you
> could text message data) and WAP delivered some content free from ads,
> which put it at risk as the web was supposed to make a profit selling
> spam.
>
> Users demanded more and started refusing to pay $2/KB, even per MB
> causing those $500 sellphone bills, cellular bankruptcy. The systems
> started to open up...just a little...a tiny concession to user demand.
>
> So, now we're in the iPhone Era and the demand is high from an ignorant
> public who is not really looking close enough at what they're paying
> for....a trend back into the data charging dark ages with another
> tactic...the sellular smartphone designed to NOT use data. WTF?
>
> I hate smartphones that won't even let you look at a webpage. That's
> pretty much all of them, including iPhone and its stupid non-
> multitasking, low resolution video environment. "They" keep promising
> us better. Friends, Droid isn't better........It's just another save-
> me-from-user-bandwidth smartphone. It might as well be WAP.....
>
> I spent almost an hour in a busy Verizon company store playing with this
> pig today, testing mostly its web-browsing capabilities. The Verizon
> fanbois have all promised us the company has turned over a new leaf and
> stopped hobbling up the phones, a denial of service. I'd like to say
> from what I saw today, that's all bullshit! The Droid is all hobbled up
> because it WON'T do what web browsers need to do....PLAY THE WEBPAGES.
>
> Some of the most blatant omissions I found are:
>
> 1 - No FLASH. No flash, no content! Goog has proxy served the big
> guns. Click a YouTube FLASH video off its webpage, it boots a YouTube
> player from the "cloud" that translates FLASH into a really nice youtube
> clip player. That's all well and good for Goog and YouTube...but it
> won't playhttp://speedtest.knology.net/because it has NO FLASH. It
> won't play ANY flash-based webpages it hasn't specifically been designed
> and proxied to play. Try it. Tryhttp://www.speedtest.net/to make
> sure. It doesn't play, either....nada. How much FLASH playing is in
> your internet life? Every webpage is full of it, now! You're not going
> to ever play it on a DROID from The Borg.....not allowed.
>
> 2 - No media STREAMING, either. Any real web browser will displayhttp://www.shoutcast.com/the radio station streaming list of thousands
> of online web stations to listen to. Most play in the simplest of MP3
> streams, with many using RealPlayer and a small smathering of
> Quicktime...very small. Stations also stream in freeware OGG format.
> The Borg's Droids will play none of it. Every time I clicked up a
> Shoutcast station, Droid took me to a Goog website to intervene, instead
> of just PLAYING the station. I don't need google to get between me and
> any of the streams from KSEY's cowboy jukebox music. I need for it to
> PLAY IT, DAMMIT!.....NOW! It's only streaming MP3 at 28Kbps. I'm sure
> we can deliver that without the ****ing beast corporation going
> bankrupt!
>
> Realplayer....in your dreams. MP3 streaming....ha ha ha. OGG...what's
> that?? Quicktime...This isn't Apple, you know.
>
> 3 - No JAVA. National Weather Service and most government webpages
> you'd like to see say: "Java is necessary for radar looping and is best
> optimized using Java version 1.4.2 or higher.
> Go towww.java.com/enfor more information regarding Java."...or
> something to that effect. No JAVA, no controllable radar displays.
> Sorry.
>
> 4 - Silverlight. Surely you jest. It won't even play Flash!
>
> The web browser is all hobbled up to SAVE BANDWIDTH.....useless.
>
> After testing just plain web browsing, I returned it to its security
> rack shaking my head and the Verizon sales droid moved on quickly to a
> more productive sucker.....
>
> The mall's resellers had plenty of Droids but lacked anything resembling
> a "buyer". The tire kickers, once they found out the price, fled in
> panic....
>
> Useless.....Just like iPhone.


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At least social security spending will drop due to all the big minute
yappers getting broiled.