I actually watched Blue Velvet on my iPod Touch one time.. Not that I’ve watched it for a first time on the iPod, but it’s just really funny.
And what’s ironic I actually feel his pain. Not that I was throughly bothered by the quality of sound or video but it just not right to watch real artistic film in the subway.
Being only few month old, iPod Touch, alongside with its brother iPhone, managed to fight its way to the very top of the personal devise (PDA) market. That is not the only war, however, new devise set in the market. After purchasing my iPod Touch (“iPod” further) I spent a very little time browsing “normal sized internet”, I actually browse it with my new iPod.
And every day to my great amazement I find a growing number of websites creating new format for their pages: it now actually fits into the relatively small iPod’s window (640×480). The new look has a name – “iPhone/iPod Touch web applications”, which can be accessed through Safari browser in your gadget. Originally having a simple web games and VoIP online merchants – web application list for iPhone products now contains a number of web giants like facebook.com, ebay.com, weather.com, gmail.com etc. (the full list can be found here http://ipodapplicationlist.com) Not to mention the build in applications such as You Tube by youtube.com developers and iTunes build-in store. It is thus clear that a size of small web is only a matter of time. How many companies would detect the trend before every single one of them will join the progress? How big the web usability issue would arise having yet another devise for a web browsing?
The dilemma of web usability is an old one. Daily thousands of web designers are struggling to make their website look good on user’s monitors researching most popular screen resolutions and browsers used. A whole new study has been created and websites like http://usability.com.au/ gain a birth. Wouldn’t it be a dream for a web-masters to have their websites viewed on one devise only with known resolution and parameters? On the other hand it’ll most likely add pain to the developers since they already have few different looks attached to their websites – for firefox, for IE, for flash, for html, for 1024×768 and 1280×1024, for mac osx and windows. Add the web-application view to it and you’ll have a very complicated list of needed resolutions to please a user. Yet it is a good thing, I believe, and the name to it is “Progress”.
