Test that Showed Android Browser Quicker than iPhone Safari was Flawed

Yesterday's rather shocking locating that the Nexus S loads Internet pages 52% more rapidly than the iPhone four has turned out to be a sham.

Apple has lashed out at Blaze Software program, the organization behind the test, saying: "Their testing is flawed. They did not truly test the Safari browser on the iPhone. As an alternative they only tested their very own proprietary app, which makes use of an embedded Internet viewer that does not really make the most of Safari's Internet efficiency optimizations."

Blaze has updated its web site in response to Apple's rebuttal, sort of admitting it created a mistake, but also attacking Apple for crippling iOS's embedded Internet viewer.

There is one more, much more nefarious, story at play, even though. With iOS four.three, Apple shipped a brand new version of Mobile Safari, which thanks to Nitro JavaScript and asynchronous rendering really should be quite rapidly indeed. Apple did not update the embedded Net viewer that iOS Internet apps use, nevertheless. The result is the fact that even though internet sites are extremely snappy, Internet apps that you just launch from the residence screen are sluggish.

By not updating the embedded Net viewer, developers are claiming that Apple is intentionally stymying the efficiency - and therefore adoption - of Internet apps on the iOS platform. It could merely be that Apple did not get about to updating the embedded Internet viewer in time for iOS four.3's release, even though.

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