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The Web Is Passing Most of You By… And You are Asleep

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11 pointsilamont10 comments

Strongly agree, not withstanding the gratuitous swearing. Mobile browsing has radically reduced my tolerance for designer cruft; if things don't improve soon there's going to be an opening for a mobile browser that specializes in filtering and caching web pages to speed up navigation.

Note to admins: if my browser string indicates I'm using a smartphone, then I'm going to be gone after about 20 seconds. 80%+ of my mobile browsing is for the purpose of reading news, but 80%+ of what I'm downloading is eye candy. I've started blocking the worst offenders.

This piece of information should be forwarded to Carol Roth of the "Screw Your Brilliant Business Idea" thread fame. She has some horrible floating blot that pimps some free report. On a mobile browser these things make me bail immediately.

If we are lucky, mobile may spell the end of popups because they render the reading experience useless. I'm looking at you, Mashable.

* if things don't improve soon there's going to be an opening for a mobile browser that specializes in filtering and caching web pages to speed up navigation*

Opera Mini already does this I think.

To some extent, but I don't find it terribly usable in its current form. But at least they're trying.

Everyone has a smartphone

Fuck. That. Shit.

You know who always says this? People with smart phones. It's amazing how having a smart phone convinces you that everyone has one. You also are convinced that they have your exact model of smart phone. Buy an iPhone? Guess what, suddenly everyone has one and you should be writing iPhone apps. Android? No way, nobody has one of those.

Mobile is definitely an interesting area to look at, but always trying to be on the cusp of the next big thing just means you'll spin your wheels a lot chasing stuff that doesn't pan out. Just ask everyone who touted Wave as "The thing you need to f-ing know right now!!!1!11!"

Don't be scared of getting passed over by the next hotness. Just look at all the plenty of companies making money on stuff that's old and tired. Wanna make money? Look at email! Groupon, Mailchimp, and a whole host of other companies are making money hand over fist. Try tell them about how email is dead.

What is with the non-stop vulgarity? Trying to be "hip" somehow?

Your message is lost when one can't respect how you are saying it.

  Your message is lost when one can't respect how you are saying it.

Although, in this case, the main role for the vulgarity seems to be covering for the fact that the author has no message.

  "The RIGHT data to the RIGHT person at the RIGHT time on
  the RIGHT device. Data first, Device LAST."

This sounds good, but what does it actually mean, practically speaking? That we should be targeting SMS on old phones that Haitians use in national catastrophes? That doesn't sound like a very good business strategy...

I've been trying to convince people to design and code for mobile devices first for a while now. I'm always amazed at the corporate resistance against this. I'm so forwarding this, swearing included. Good thing is that in my startup I do whatever i want.

Can we please not have these inflammatory and uncivilized things on HN? I'm sure if there was a point to it, someone else would have written it down with less drama and more substance.

Thanks.

Right-time > Real-time.

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