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Puncher: elephant: Puncher: I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful. Other than that it's fine! I just during my commute tried the website on an phone for the first ... And it actual makes sense on a small touch device whereas on my Mac it is just a silly pain Quite interesting !! I suspect that it was the mobile site you looked at which as you say is easier to navigate and seems to have a lot less fluff on it. The mobile site does seem to be better than the main site, which is good but silly!!!
elephant: Puncher: I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful. Other than that it's fine! I just during my commute tried the website on an phone for the first ... And it actual makes sense on a small touch device whereas on my Mac it is just a silly pain Quite interesting !!
Puncher: I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful. Other than that it's fine!
I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful.
Other than that it's fine!
I just during my commute tried the website on an phone for the first ...
And it actual makes sense on a small touch device whereas on my Mac it is just a silly pain
Quite interesting !!
I suspect that it was the mobile site you looked at which as you say is easier to navigate and seems to have a lot less fluff on it. The mobile site does seem to be better than the main site, which is good but silly!!!
Well I just hit the normal URL, but you are right that they probably have smart programming that detects the end point is a phone and adjust accordingly. Nonetheless through a touch interface the interaction and layout style made much more sense.
Even cleverer programming would have been to optimise the desktop/laptop experience to the same degree.
I might spend an un-productive hour this evening testing it via mini and midi tablets.
BeoNut since '75
And then compare it to this website....
http://www.linn.co.uk
Great lifestyle pics to draw you in, easy navigation, wizz bang promises backed up with technical gumf, even a choice of colours(with pictures WOW), and prices too.
So 2007
Beosound Stage, Beovision 8-40, Beolit 20, Beosound Explore.
elephant: Puncher: elephant: Puncher: I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful. Other than that it's fine! I just during my commute tried the website on an phone for the first ... And it actual makes sense on a small touch device whereas on my Mac it is just a silly pain Quite interesting !! I suspect that it was the mobile site you looked at which as you say is easier to navigate and seems to have a lot less fluff on it. The mobile site does seem to be better than the main site, which is good but silly!!! Well I just hit the normal URL, but you are right that they probably have smart programming that detects the end point is a phone and adjust accordingly. Nonetheless through a touch interface the interaction and layout style made much more sense. Even cleverer programming would have been to optimise the desktop/laptop experience to the same degree. I might spend an un-productive hour this evening testing it via mini and midi tablets.
I haven't time - it's Wednesday©
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Puncher: elephant: Puncher: elephant: Puncher: I've banged on about it many times - it seems as if it's done by the turtle neck brigade for their own entertainment and satisfaction rather than as a source of information for potential and existing customers. Far, far too much scrolling about and far, far too much pretentious, airy fairy claptrap with very little "real" content - the standard of some of the technical information available is woeful. Other than that it's fine! I just during my commute tried the website on an phone for the first ... And it actual makes sense on a small touch device whereas on my Mac it is just a silly pain Quite interesting !! I suspect that it was the mobile site you looked at which as you say is easier to navigate and seems to have a lot less fluff on it. The mobile site does seem to be better than the main site, which is good but silly!!! Well I just hit the normal URL, but you are right that they probably have smart programming that detects the end point is a phone and adjust accordingly. Nonetheless through a touch interface the interaction and layout style made much more sense. Even cleverer programming would have been to optimise the desktop/laptop experience to the same degree. I might spend an un-productive hour this evening testing it via mini and midi tablets. I haven't time - it's Wednesday©
LOL - I take the admonishment in the spirit intended - I hope
So having a sufficient plethora of iDevices I was able to do a micro (phone), mini, and midi test (still waiting for the maxi to be announced).
Sadly ... the truly clever programming has only been applied to the micro format device.
The others suffered from images truncated on the left and from word spills at inelegant points.
There was even the situation where the main image was cropped from the bottom in an attempt in landscape mode to put icons/links/controls on the screen at the expense of loosing the visual image/impact/message !
Still the micro device (phone) implementation seems the most elegant.
And yes, I too love the LINN site - not only the look and feel, but also the plethora of what they do. I wish B&O could/would follow the LINN model of publishing high quality music. Even their LINN Living Room approach is better ... bookable attendance at playback music events in cities that feature a particular band/musician's recording played on the best of their product line.
elephant: Still the micro device (phone) implementation seems the most elegant.
You know when you're on the mobile site as the URL address is preceded by an "m" i.e, "m.bang-olufsen.com/"
Puncher: elephant: Still the micro device (phone) implementation seems the most elegant. You know when you're on the mobile site as the URL address is preceded by an "m" i.e, "m.bang-olufsen.com/"
True. Check. True.
jans:After upgrading to ios7 the mobile website doesn't work anymore on my iPhone 4S. What's wrong? Jan
What's wrong?
Jan
Not sure - I upgraded from a 3GS to a 5S in one giant leap for thumb kind.
Try slashdot.org
It's a simpler mobile/non-mobile site that works on my 3GS and my 5S