iPhone Web Claims Draw Governmental Rebuke in UK

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writes "Apple has been running an iPhone ad saying 'all parts of the internet are on the iPhone', but it had to be withdrawn after Britain's Advertising Standards Authority ruled that it gave 'a misleading impression of the internet capabilities of the iPhone' because the iPhone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?"

Comments

Re:Who misses flash?

[spun]

But then you are siding with BIG GOVERNMENT telling you what the Internet is! Do you want those IDIOTIC BUREAUCRATS and CORRUPT POLITICIANS telling you what the Internet is? They think it's a bunch of tubes! What we need here is a FREE MARKET solution! Whoever has the most money gets to decide what the Internet is. If Apple says the Internet is non-flash, non-java, web only, well, that is their right as a big corporation with lots of money, and government shouldn't get in the way.

Look, it is every corporation's right to mislead people. That's called free speech. It's social Darwinism at work, taking money from the stupid and gullible and giving it to people who deserve it and have the brains to use it. If Apple wants to call the iPhone a magical device that eats pollution and shits gold, well, that is their right. /sarcasm

Re:Confusion

[mini me]

Implementing Java and Flash on the iPhone would go against the SDK rules.