iphone blues

[crowhen]

I've been working on a mobile site for my company, and that means lots of reading books and lots of testing the site in various mobile browsers. Of course, I own a little pay-as-you-go phone that I don't connect to the internet with, so testing has been difficult. Especially for the iphone

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[jasonfranks]

Agreed.

Some stuff they do very, very well, expecially when it comes to shiny surfaces and reliability (having UNIX under the hood is a huge help for this latter; the Windows kernel is a disaster).

Not so good when things go awry, though: part of the perceived reliability comes from the fact that Mac OS suppresses a lot of warnings and errors ont he grounds that you might not understand them (same goes for smaller devices, like my old IPod). Likewise, claims that Macs are virus proof have never been true. Lots of badguys are going after Macs now.

Having said all of that, I am quite keen to get a Snow Leopard machine running myself. Probably a Hackintosh in a VM to start with...

--JF

[crowhen]

:D Mac viruses. If I were a cracker, I'd be all over those unprotected machines right now. Many people buy Macs and never install anti-virus software, largely thanks to Mac's misleading advertising.

[crowhen]

To clarify: I personally would not do that. But it's got to look like easy-pickings to unsavory types.

[jasonfranks]

The number of viruses and malwares for Macs is still a couple of orders of magnitude lower than for PCs, but it's growing fast for precisely that reason.

Also, because Mac users have money.

-- JF

[crowhen]

Larger ROI ;)

[jasonfranks]

Fish in a barrel.