My problem with stuff like the FaceBook app is that, with iPhone, I was promised the “real internet”, yet people keep trying to repackage that for iPhone and so now I have to click twice as much on FaceBook, Amazon, etc. to get back to the real internet version I was promised to begin with.
I understand CSS enables platform targeting, but CSS-compliance already allow standards based designs to work on a wide range anyway.
Hey, leave my ‘net alone.
(I should note that I do like web apps targeted to do specific things, like mimic word processor functions or play games, just not ones that take existing content and merely reshape it in a platform specific way).
Selling iPhones 101: You can use Facebook
Not unlike popsicles, there are many ways to sell phones. You can talk about how they clear planes for takeoff, speak about how Visual Voicemail is the single greatest innovation in the history of the world, save yourself from awkward social situations with the significant others boss, or even post to your ballerina blog from the stage during a performance. You might even point out how the phone gets the real Internet—not the mobile Internet or watered-down Internet—but the actual Internet without Flash or Java. These are all fine and good strategies, but if you really want your phones to fly off the shelves like carrier pigeons, you point out how it can get you onto Facebook from anywhere during prime time television.
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