Why the iPhone can’t be the new Internet Explorer 6

I can’t stop myself laughing at such “bombshell”. Let me explain why!

First of all, the article cites a “mobile developer”: Peter-Paul Koch. As it happens, he’s not a mobile developer but a “mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer” and “he concentrates on Web technologies, mobile websites, and W3C Widgets”.

Secondly, he’s confusing native apps with apps delivered through the integrated browser. Here are couple of reasons why it’s not even close to the truth:

• Safari shipped with the iPhone is based on an open-source project, WebKit. This is also used by Google Chrome, Web Browser for Android, Web Browser for S60 and WebOS (the one used in the Palm Pre)
• Flash is shinny piece of c**p. Why do you think people invented Flash-blockers? Yes, on the “traditional” browsers.
• Internet is not filtered on the browser
• IE6 was Microsoft’s attempt to influence the web standards and create their own standards
• iPhone does three quarters of UK mobile browsing according to CNET UK – share market is not equivalent with utility or revenue
• Try and use a Nokia for mobile browsing!

Well, this is a typical “breaking news” that you’ll get from a moribund industry.