…are dumb.
With web content as it is currently, anything Flash-less is almost like time-warping back to 1993. Almost. Anyone really want the Cello Browser on anything? *heh* Sure, there is a lot of crap Flash (ads, especially), but a mature mobile browser can block things like that granularly when one wants to (Opera Mobile could do so up until version 10, but reports have that feature AWOL in recent Mobile builds for some strange reason), and since some of my essential sites use Flash well, anything Flash-less is simply not on my horizon.
Just one more reason why–for me–the pickin’s are slim on the “smart” phone menu. Still waiting on a compelling reason to buy a so-called “smart” phone and data plan (some might rightly say I’m just too cheap *heh*). Somehow right now, being unplugged (except for the inevitable calls-only throwaway cell phone–so when the number gets around too much and I become too accessible, I can simply toss the thing and start over) for large chunks of my day seems a Good Thing.
This post brought to you as a result of
- Someone griping in my hearing about slow-loading Flash on his Android phone (little wonder, since the software’s still in beta) and
- Someone else discovering, as I watched in amusement, that his iPhone couldn’t access work-related web content because it’s Flash-less.