Is Apple Crippling iPhone Web Apps?
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Is Apple Crippling iPhone Web Apps?
The Register reports that websites/iPhone web apps that are launched using the Home screen icon run slower compared to when they are loaded directly in iPhone’s Mobile Safari.
The Register claims that this has been observed after the iOS 4.3 software update that was released last week.
The Register reports:
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I bet apple knew this all along. Well it wouldn't surprise me!
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Rotten Apple!
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They put out major and minor releases of iOS like clockwork. There's bound to be bugs. I really don't think html5/JavaScript could ever touch native objective-c. That's silly talk!! :)
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You're not getting it. Re-read the article.
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It would seem to me that it would have to be a conscious decision - it's still Safari doing the work. If it's true I bet it's to prevent publishers from avoiding in-app purchases by developing a web app.
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Maybe one of the dev teams could look into it.Apple could be doing with a good kick in the PR nuts.IOS 4.3 has been a while in the making and through a few betas so it would appear on the surface that this may well be deliberate. How many folks will happily download the next IOS update to fix this and other issues, only to bugger up their jailbreak and lose control of their property in the process?Customers might think twice about paying a premium for a deliberately crippled piece of tech.There are quite a few viable contenders out there these days and the slick Apple marketing machine might want to update the slogan "it just works"... by adding "If we'll let it"iDevices may well be sleek, must have, eye candy. if only the customer experience lived up to the design.
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and the hype.
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There must be a good reason for it to work this way after all apple knows what is best for us all. So stop crying.....
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Apple really liked my post they even sent me some kool-aid to drink......I love apple.........
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I think... your whining too much, yes, works faster than Nitro, but those who jailbreak are on 4.2.1 still only, so what difference does Nitro make to us?Next to nothing. The slower speeds? Same speed as our current experience, so what ever, don't mean anything...
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Apple is trying to use its monoply to do what it wants, when it wants.
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Apple knows what's best for them I think.
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Why wouldn't Apple cripple iPhone Web Apps?They have crippled everything else on the deviceIt is laughable that you have to jailbreak the phone to make it work properly.
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Maybe a planned bug so they have a good reason to release an update after the next JB is released.
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Well, if you have iphone 4 with iOS 4.3 and want to downgrade to get an untethered jailbreak again(tethered drove me crazy), you can but you gotta go back to iOS 4.1. I used Tiny Umbrella 4.1.6 and downloaded the proper ipsw. Temp solution till untethered 4.3 jailbreak is available.
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I think they shouldn't care so much about the jailbreak it doesn't effect them at all unless people install hackulo then they lose money but other than that the jailbreak has nothing to do with them they should come out with one good iOS so people don't need to constantly update there phone to have all these extra features that they could wrap all into one iOS so they need to quit worrying about the jailbreak and just put out one good iOS
