After finally conceding to buy an iPhone (then instantly converting to an iPhone-a-phile) it has re-awoken my annoyance at unnecessarily bandwidth hungry websites and phat emails.
Outside of a 3G service area and cast into the bandwidth wildness, I’ve becoming painfully aware of the delays and download budget impact for simple emails with bloated banners, oversized signature images etc.
I’ve also had to discard several favourite sites either because of image bloat; poor mobile device adaption. The killer is that the iPhone does not support Flash so sites using it for sales promotion and particularly for navigation have lost me and presumably other iPhone visitors.
Just to give this some context a quick scan of high profile sites under my care reveals iPhone/iPods visitors range between 1.8 to 4.6% of all visitors over the Dec/Jan period!
iPhone website visitors are out there aplenty and presumably they like to buy stuff.
Make sure you are not missing out on them through poor mobile support in your phone & emails.
