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posted by kiku on Sep 3

To all web-designers. Do NOT automatically forward iPhones to your mobile pages!!!!!! If I wanted to see a reduced, generally useless website formatted for mobile phones I’d go out and get a tiny-screened little flipphone or something. I got an iPhone so I can use the intertubes in all their dubious glory with NO automatic formatting. If you want, then feel free to give me the option to use it which I could use when my reception is slow or something, but NEVER do it automatically. The sites are generally useless, or, in the case of wikipaedia (yes, a public admission of occasionally using wikipaedia – although I do it only very rarely when I need a very quick reference to something pop culture related, and even then with great great shame) the mobile server is almost always down anyway. Yea, wiki is nearly always near-stroke-inducing since you can see your page loading..loading..almost done….POW! forwarded to the mobile site which is always down. Bastards. They’ve pretty much destroyed integrity of information on the interwebs, so now they want to render mobile devices as useless as most of their content. Bastards.

Repeat – DO NOT AUTOMATICALLY FORWARD IPHONES TO MOBILE CONTENT!!!!!

Jeez.

For fairness’ sake, I should add that if Apple didn’t have its fair share of imbeciles as well, then they’d include a setting where you could identify your browser as something else.