On 05/09/2012 05:05 PM, scott wrote:
>> I don't get why you would install an app which just displays the
>> contents of a specific web page. I mean, isn't that what a web browser
>> already does??
>
> Some apps are like that (essentially just shortcuts to web pages,
> perhaps with auto login and remembering certain settings etc.) which
> isn't a problem, so long as they are free.

Which is why the high price of the WA app is so anomalous.

> Other apps do more useful
> stuff though that isn't possible through a web page.

OK, but... like what?

>> It's like you can get those portable DVD players, which invariably have
>> a 4-inch screen. Somehow, watching a picture that's so tiny you can
>> barely make out the actors' faces just doesn't seem as enjoyable as
>> watching it on a huge 40-inch display...
>
> Hold your phone closer to your eyes then, Nokia have a full-HD
> (1920x1080) phone in the pipeline/announced, so quality should be fine
> for making out actors faces :-)

Full HD, on a screen only an inch across. How pointless...

(You realise that the human eye can only focus on objects a certain 
distance away from your face, right? Never mind if you want to see it 
with both eyes simultaneously.)

>>> Also most web
>>> pages recognise you're on a mobile device and give a different layout to
>>> the desktop version.
>>
>> That sounds /highly/ unlikely...
>
> But true, and some even prompt you to ask if you want to download their
> mobile app (eg if you visit facebook).

Oh, I know Facebook is /constantly/ trying to shove stuff like that in 
my face...

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