tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post113946666524415073..comments2024-01-06T19:54:24.263-08:00Comments on The Road Less Traveled: Mobile Developers: Don't Screw The Early Adopters!adamjhhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13521028510530886615noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-54807753304410776262023-09-15T06:56:03.953-07:002023-09-15T06:56:03.953-07:00Hello mate niice postHello mate niice postThe Paper And Inkhttps://thepaperandink.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1139525772039951602006-02-09T14:56:00.000-08:002006-02-09T14:56:00.000-08:00II <3 our exchanges. ;-)adamjhhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13521028510530886615noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9139853.post-1139510666597382072006-02-09T10:44:00.000-08:002006-02-09T10:44:00.000-08:00I think you mis-stated four things in this blog en...I think you mis-stated four things in this blog entry:<BR/>1. You made it look like we have a one-fits-all solution which we try to preserve at any cost. Your implication is not close to being true. We do a bunch of work to accommodate various browsers. Just to quote an example: We use Openwave’s MIME support to more efficiently transfer all graphics to users phone when they use WL Mail (all the icons download in one chunk, instead of multiple roundtrips. This speeds the download up on the newest Openwave browsers significantly). We have code that does special things for Symbian browsers, pIE browsers, Openwave 6 browsers, Openwave 7 browsers, AU browsers, iMode browsers and I could go on and on and on.<BR/>2. Everything is a tradeoff. For instance, in my blog entry I talked about a tradeoff that we’ve made, which causes a fairly minimal extra truncation of subject lines in the inbox view and which is a non-trivial problem to fix. Knowing that every project has a limited timeline and resources to ship, would you rather see “Party at my place tonight” rather than “Party at my place t... “ in the inbox view when you still see the full subject line when you open the message, or would you rather be able to for instance search contacts in your address book ? If our truncation prevented you from identifying what an email is about or who it’s from I would be completely worried. However, the 18 characters (or more) that we usually display are enough to provide you the necessary context to decide whether you want to open the email or not. <BR/>3. The argument that we had over the weekend was actually more about overall “usability” than supporting some devices. Since we spent close to an hour talking about it, summarizing it here wouldn’t give it justice ;). <BR/>4. Your subject line implies that the early adopters are all running the same device that you are, which is not close to being true. I would say that all mobile browse users are early adopters (maybe with the exception of users in some countries in Asia).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com