I hope my new country will never become "civilised".
I don't think there's much danger of that.
Oh, and Europe does have price gouging laws, and unlike the US, they apply even when there is no state of emergency.
No, it's pretty much you guys and the Russians.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...
Sounds like Android. Think I've found your problem.
Neither do I. But for site I use everyday, I'll take the app in preference to the mobile website every time.
And no, full (non responsive) websites are certainly not better than mobile ones when you are on a phone. They mean that either the text is too small to read and the buttons and links to small to press, or you have to constantly scroll left and right as well as up and down.
Looks like web developers got hold of some mod points.
Slashdot isn't responsive. (Don't know about beta, I stayed on classic.)
This is responsive: https://css-tricks.com/
Tell me what's wrong with it.
It depends. If it's a site I use a lot, then I welcome an app. They are invariably better in every way than a mobile site. But if it's a site you're only using casually, you certainly don't want an app.
Designers need to use better tools. Unfortunately most of them stick to photoshop as if their lives depended on it.
Most of us haven't forgiven MS nor trust them again, yet. Why use Bing when there's Duck Duck Go?
The problem with that is Google needs to provide consistent results across all devices.
Google long ago abandoned giving consistent results across anything. The days when "I'm third in the search for
The modern way to do mobile is responsive design. This also makes it better for desktop, because if you shrink your browser window down, the content resizes and relays out, and uses alternative layouts as appropriate, so you never have to scroll horizontally to read a web page.
I know nothing of these price gouging laws of which you speak. But then I live in a civilised country, where people aren't taught from birth to fuck each other over if possible.
Many stores will simply close altogether; it's not worth staying open in an emergency subject to price fixing laws if they can just sell at the same price after the emergency is over anyway.
Sure it is, because the stock will sell far faster - assuming it's the kind of store that sells practical items.
Given that they would be open when the emergency is over anyway. All that period of high sales would be wasted opportunity.
And that's just from the purely selfish capitalist angle. Mostly shops are run by decent human beings so will strive to be open in times of need anyway because they don't want to cause even more suffering.
Everyone pulled together on 9/11. Anyone who saw it as an opportunity to increase profit is a shitbag.
It's quite different from a general policy to match supply with demand by varying price.
**Colligan laughed off the idea that any company â" including the wildly popular Apple Computer â" could easily win customers in the finicky smart-phone sector.
âoeWeâ(TM)ve learned and struggled for a few years here figuring out how to make a decent phone,â he said. âoePC guys are not going to just figure this out. Theyâ(TM)re not going to just walk in."**
Ed Colligan - Palm CEO - 2006.
Gruber is only saying that 3rd party apps suck at this stage. Every thing else about the Watch he loves.
The iPhone didn't even have 3rd party apps when it launched. And it's first round of apps were web apps, which also sucked.
And yet the iPhone has been the most successful smartphone ever.
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