Navigate to Apple's site on your iPhone. Now try dotMac. Or don't...not if you're on EDGE. Just take my word for it: they're not optimized for the iPhone.
Huh? Apple is in a better position than anyone to provide a wonderful user experience on the iPhone. They could serve up beautifully streamlined pages that would look superb on that great big little screen.
Except, they can't.
They can't because Steve keynoted us all about how Safari on the iPhone provides the "real" web. None of your WAP-ish, mobile-y, Skweezed and shrunk web for iPhone users.
And how the haters would sneer if Apple provided special pages for the iPhone. If pinchzoom is so great, why don't they use it?
Which is too damn bad.
Safari does a terrific job of presenting the web on the iPhone. But a site that requires doubletap, scroll, scroll, pinchzoom is one I won't be visiting often. (Yes, I haven't yet figured out how to integrate "viewport" into my TypePad templates, and no, the irony is not lost on me.) I find myself seeking out lean and mean sites that present the information in a legible manner on load. Zooming on the iPhone is a kludge, beautifully executed. But the kludge is not working around a flaw in the 'Phone. The flaw is in web pages that fail to scale.