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iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK

Posted by timothy on from the zoolander-bit dept.

Wills writes "Apple has been running an iPhone ad saying 'all parts of the internet are on the iPhone', but it had to be withdrawn after Britain's Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it gave 'a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone' because the iPhone cannot access Flash or Java – features that are essential to some websites. This raises an interesting issue of where do you draw the line between essential and non-essential features of websites. What should the web look like? Should government authorities be the ones making that decision?"

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  1. Confusion by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The ad repeatedly says you can get the whole 'internet', not just the web.

    Apple, I want gopher dammit!

    1. Re:Confusion by Verdatum · · Score: 3, Funny

      aw come on, the iPhone can ACCESS "the entire Internet". They've got an IP stack, all is happy. There's no promise that the iPhone will know what to do with the bits once they actually ARRIVE! I'm no iphone guy but if they just include a decent copy of telnet, so long as you can read ascii encoded hex and type REALLY fast integrating knowledge of whatever protocol is involved, then you technically have the WHOLE Internet!

    2. Re:Confusion by Televiper2000 · · Score: 2, Funny

      hmmm.. interesting... I guess you responded to the wrong parent.

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  2. Who misses flash? by Mr.+Underbridge · · Score: 2, Funny

    "the iPhone cannot access Flash or Java - features that are essential to some horribly designed websites."

    Fixed.

  3. what? by bigmaddog · · Score: 4, Funny
    1. Apple makes a bogus/oversimplified claim in ad.
    2. Gov't says "stop bsing in your ads."
    3. Poster asks "should gov't regulate look & feel of the web?"

    Holy non sequitur batman!

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  4. Archie, gopher, WAIS by theurge14 · · Score: 4, Funny

    The iPhone App store better get cracking on those Archie, Gopher and WAIS clients.

  5. Re:Should we leave it up to the government? by LMacG · · Score: 3, Funny

    > "I have here a coffee mug. It gets all of the internet [for my particular definition of all of the internet]".

    I'll bet your coffee mug runs Java, though, something the iPhone can't do.

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  6. Re:the web != the Internet by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    the web != the Internet

    Remind me again which one was for porn?

  7. Re:Somewhere, a bridge is missing its troll... by Neon+Spiral+Injector · · Score: 4, Funny

    OK, it's up.

  8. Re:How the web should look like? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Personally, I think it should look like a bunch of HTML 1.0 pages with colorless background and a few heading styles used sparsely. A few images here and there and post tags for ordering stuff are okay, too. Anything above that is just needless crap.

    Yes, it's a good idea to enforce this style. The NATO should have the power to do that.

    News Headline: Microsoft Windows update website fails to load in LYNX, NATO to invade Redmond!

  9. Re:False advertising by edalytical · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is arguing more important than understanding?

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  10. Re:iphone sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

    Apple redefined mobile web and the consumer web itself

    Fap fap Apple fap fap Apple fap fap Apple fap Apple fap Apple Fapple Fapple Fapple Sploooooooge.

    Jesus Pontificating Christ - can't all you Apple Fanbois go be gay together on some other web site?

    The iPhone is a poorly designed, vastly overpriced peice of crap as a portable web browsing appliance. At least with 3G it's not a dog-slow poorly designed, vastly overpriced peice of crap, but that's hardly anything to cream your jeans over.