[Web4lib] article of interest

[Brian Gray]

I do not see the growth changing as people will still want the web on their
phones as well. You cannot carry an iPad everywhere with you, but you can
take your phone almost everywhere.

Brian Gray
mindspiral at gmail.com
bcg8 at case.edu


On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Larry Schwartz <schwartz at mnstate.edu>wrote:

> (extracted from Benton's Headlines.  ls.)
>
> WILL IPAD CHILL MOBILE WEB PAGES?
> [SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle, AUTHOR: Tom Kaneshige]
> [Commentary] The iPhone is the face that launched a thousand mobile
> websites-actually, more like 326,600, according to a recent study by Taptu,
> a mobile search engine. That number is growing by leaps and bounds in
> various areas of the web, such as shopping and services, the survey
> concludes. There seems to be no stopping the trend, or is there? With its
> 10-inch screen, the iPad has the potential of slowing the development of
> mobile websites and bring back traditional desktop ones. The reason:
> Traditional websites look great on the iPad. Website browsing is the reason
> the iPad was developed in the first place. "iPad offers the best Web
> browsing experience there is-way better than laptops," said Apple CEO Steve
> Jobs.
>
> http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/02/02/urnidgns002570F3005978D8002576BE00628461.DTL
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