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It sucks because the Safari browser that comes bundled with the iPhone and the iPod touch is the weakest link of the whole platform because the applications is unstable and prone to just dumping you back onto the main screen. I do a lot of browsing on the iPod touch and there are some sites that are simply unusable through Safari as they crash the browser each and every time I browser them.
Side note #1: These sites never crash the browser on my Nokia E71, or Opera Mini on the E71, or IE and Opera on my Windows Mobile devices.
Side note #2: Site that seem to cause Safari on the iPhone/iPod touch to go belly up for me include Engadget, BBC News (the main page is also incredibly slow), CNN, IMDB … there are dozens more. Some of these sites have “mobile” versions which work better, but I thought that the iPhone platform was supposed to bring me the full web, not what I was getting from a cellphone several years ago?
Opera Mini isn’t for anyone wanting to browser securely (there’s no end-to-end security), but for at least 95% of the web browsing I do (especially mobile browsing), that wouldn’t matter anyway.
What I find shocking is that web reliability problems have plagued the iPhone and iPod touch since day one. You can walk into any Apple store, pick up the demo iPhone or iPod touch and feed it a website that’ll eventually cause the browser to close up you. I also know that crash info is fed back to Apple regularly, so it’s not as though they’re unaware of these issues. And yet is seems that iPhone operating system v2.2 will concentrate on new features (rating apps when you uninstall them and emoticons … oh woohoo …) rather than core fixes. And Apple criticizes Microsoft for having its priorities all wrong.
http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=2901