[maemo-users] A Race between the IPhone and the Nokia IT WE

From: Tim Ashman tim at ashmans.net
Date: Sun Oct 12 05:10:55 EEST 2008
I also think if there was flash on the cnet page the iphone would just skip it 
thus making the test easier for the iphone.  I amazes me that a supposed 
educated tech review firm would miss this point entirely.  I think they are 
just lame or they are slanted toward getting that next apple invite.  Either 
way long live the NIT

tim

On Saturday 11 October 2008 04:30:18 pm Gary wrote:
> I'm not impressed. That's like having a motorcycle race a scooter -- the
> motorcycle is on I-5 from Seattle to Portland (Sprint or AT&T) and the
> scooter's on I-5 from Los Angeles to San Francisco (AT&T or Sprint) and
> both are trying to get to Salt Lake City first (Akamai's data centers that
> are caching CNET's content). Show me some latency figures and network
> topology maps between the mobile devices and their end points then I might
> be just a tiny bit less annoyed. Otherwise, they might as well record a two
> legged dog chasing a mule hauled apple cart and pronounce, "the apple
> hauler is faster than the kibble incinerator... I'm not sure if it's the
> network or the device."
>
> -Gary




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