{"id":322,"date":"2008-08-31T23:22:34","date_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/iphone-is-for-play-and-bold-is-for-business\/"},"modified":"2008-08-31T23:22:34","modified_gmt":"2008-09-01T04:22:34","slug":"iphone-is-for-play-and-bold-is-for-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/2008\/iphone-is-for-play-and-bold-is-for-business\/","title":{"rendered":"iPhone is for Play and Bold is for Business."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src='https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/iphone.jpg' alt='iphone-3g' style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With the new (and hot) Apple iPhone on the market, web designers might be considering what they should do to accommodate the fast growing audience of iPhones users.<\/p>\n<p>In a nutshell: probably not too much.<\/p>\n<p>The iPhone web browser, is Apples&#8217; Safari and it reads any web pages &#8211; even table-based websites! Gasp! Web standards zealots around the world are eating crow now. <\/p>\n<p>Anyway &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It will come down to what kind of site you are running; I think that most websites will not be the target of iPhone users while on the go. My guess, is that it will be limited to:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Social networking sites.<\/li>\n<li>News sites.<\/li>\n<li>Mapping applications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>At the end of the day, surfing the web on hand held devices will always be limited by the small screens. Though the iPhone has a kick-ass browser and all, I think the nerd-euphoria will pass in time when people realize that surfing the Web on a tiny device ain&#8217;t much fun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; Especially with those heavy data cost!<\/p>\n<p><img src='https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/bold.jpg' alt='blackberry-bold' style=\"float: right; margin: 10px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>What about the new Blackberry Bold?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The new Bold from Rim has a lot of smartphone gadgetry that make nerds happy:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Camera<\/li>\n<li>MP3 player<\/li>\n<li>Better Web browser<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>But I don&#8217;t think these extra capabilities will really be that important for most Blackberry users. &#8230; They just need to send emails easily and quickly. <\/p>\n<p>So for most web designers, I don&#8217;t think you should be so concerned about the Bold, because the Bold is for business and not for surfing the Web.<\/p>\n<p>Stefan Mischook<\/p>\n<p>www.killersites.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the new (and hot) Apple iPhone on the market, web designers might be considering what they should do to accommodate the fast growing audience of iPhones users. In a nutshell: probably not too much. The iPhone web browser, is Apples&#8217; Safari and it reads any web pages &#8211; even table-based websites! Gasp! Web standards &hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.killersites.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}