Time to go on a mobile adventure. Or not.

The mobile web is like driving a car in Edinburgh, Scotland.   ( not Edin-bro,  Edin burg or  Edin-burrow )  It's absolutely possible but it's frustrating , time consuming and full of charges from officious gatekeepers.  When you get to where you are going you often can't carry out the task you'd hoped to  do.Things like  like park and load your car. There's the cost of car, insurance ,road tax, fuel tax  so by this time you've paid the state  for the "privilige" of being able to exist ( seriously  without mobility  what  job chances are practical)  you have to pay the  place that takes money for your council tax just to park in an edifice your money  funded.

It's very much like using a mobile phone , even a "smart" one with most website,except we're volunteering to be treated this way.

Though you pay  for the device, the data and navigate yourself  to the site chances are  it's not going to do what you want, or if it does you're not going to be able to do so easily. There's an  uneasy  relationship between those that want to sell you the mobile internet while not wanting you to actually use the parts that coincide with their "on deck " money makers. So far "open"  phone and network means whatever the company that sold it to you defines as such  

Moving on.

Do you get the feeling that many of the sites you find yourself on  are written by people taking their cues from  text adventure games  from the Zork  era? 
 
> You are on my mobile site,  I have many services  Guess.

Now it's time to  work out what  services are  offered, how to get to them and if I can even see the results. Then again it's not as bad as the  Legoland a site.

When in San Diego  wanted to get the address for the  park to  check on opening times. Can't do it.  They have a nice page 3-4  pages deep that announces that  Our sites use flash and for your protection and enjoyment of the internet as a whole  we're not going to tell you how to get to the park using an iPhone or anything more limited than say  a laptop. Rather lame.   

That's with smart phone.

Why is there no map that we can use on our phones?  Just mash up a nice  Google map/ view , stick in a calendar with showtimes?   Have up to date ride wait times.. You know treat it like you give a crap about the ticket prices and actually want us to enjoy the park.



 
 

 
 

 
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