Pine Box
On February 12th our lives will change. When you walk down the street you may see a few people here or there with an extra spring in their step, you may hear peals of laughter from dark corners of your office or flagrant hoydenism among people who you may have thought mute. How do you ask? With the economy grinding down despite Federal twiddling, the dollar sliding into the dirt and the implosion of the housing market soon to be followed by the burst of the web 2.0 bubble, how could anyone be filled with unabashed hope for the future? Simple: on February 12th, Internet Explorer 6.0 is dead. Microsoft, in a move that will go down in history as “rather swell,” will force upgrade IE 6.0 to IE 7.0 U Turn psp My Girl download
. This will end a seven-year reign of arrogant non-compliance, high tower decision making, blasted web budgets and the most universally accepted broken product in human history. Not that IE 6.0 didn’t have its moments. Its list of accomplishments include the following:
1) It’s not IE 5.0
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2) Firefox
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Unfortunately for short-sighted businesses and some equally short-sighted programmers, IE 6.0’s departure will mean their business applications illogically built only to run on IE 6.0 will need to be reprogrammed, but this is a minuscule price to pay for the (semi)logical compliance of Internet Explorer 7.0. This is not to say that IE 7.0 is a peach, but by mid-2008 the beta for IE 8.0 will be hot in our hands, driving the last rusty nail in IE 6.0’s well deserved, and long overdue, pine box.
Rise of the Mobile Web
Earlier today, Hanson Dodge Creative launched the first iPhone-optimized site that we’ve created for one of our clients, Trek Bicycles. If you have an iPhone or iPod touch, I invite you to pop over to the site
and take a ride. We’re really excited about the new site and are fortunate to work with forward-looking clients who engage us on projects like this. These are the types of projects that make being a designer or developer worth it.
Yesterday, the New York Times published an interesting article
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that spoke about a spike in Google’s traffic on Christmas, ostensibly from users who had just received iPhones for the holidays. The traffic from iPhone users eclipsed that of established, entrenched mobile OS providers. Here’s the really interesting part of the article:
“The data is striking because the iPhone, an Apple product, accounts for just 2 percent of smartphones worldwide, according to IDC, a market research firm. Phones powered by Symbian make up 63 percent of the worldwide smartphone market, while those powered by Microsoft’s Windows Mobile have 11 percent and those running the BlackBerry system have 10 percent.”
So, with just 2 percent of the market, the iPhone already registered higher web traffic volumes than platforms that when combined, hold 84 percent of the current market. From my design-centric point of view, I can only deduce that people with existing smart phones do not use the web functionality of their phones and that the interface design of the iPhone makes mobile web browsing a viable, if not liberating option.
We’ve seen the same trend. In fact, it’s even more pronounced than Google’s numbers. In our own traffic logs, and in some of our clients’, we’ve noticed a meteoric rise in of the number of iPhone and iPod touch users. Overall, we’ve seen iPhone and iPod touch users, with .2 percent of traffic, register an order of magnitude higher than the next closest OS – Symbian, coming in at .02 percent. This is an unscientific look at the numbers, but it does seem to indicate that the iPhone is in a league of its own when it comes to mobile browsing.
For those of you who love lists, here’s how we see the OS traffic levels shaking out currently. Again, the jump to the iPhone and iPod touch was an order of magnitude from the closest competitor, Symbian. Any platforms not listed were below .01 percent of traffic.
- Windows
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- iPhone/iPod
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Joy Ride: End of the Road buy For me, this project was the first one that really made me believe in the future of the mobile web. I’ve been designing for the web for a decade now, and although I’ve done my fair share of mobile projects, none of them ever felt like a viable substitution for a full browser-based experience. The iPhone is changing this, and will hopefully pressure other mobile platforms to improve the browsing experience for its users.