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on the parent of the element you want to prevent asset downloading on, or use background images.Problem is: on the service level, where BlackBerry has some good offerings such as Ping and secure email, it runs into exactly the same problem. A choice is required. My gut feeling says to go with the youth messaging, but I’m not a specialist and know nothing about the financial side of things.they're saying they want to preserve both their business user base in North America and their youth messaging base in the rest of the world. That's sensible from a revenue preservation standpoint, but it means that RIM will continue to be serving two masters with very different needs. [...] It will be very difficult to create products that please both North America and the rest of the world, [...] Features that please its North American core are not likely to also please the international market, and price points that would be acceptable in North America will likely be too high for the rest of the world. The danger is that RIM will be like an army fighting on two fronts, with its forces below critical mass on both sides.
If you put your finger on the screen of an iPhone or iPad and move it around when it’s halfway through loading a complex web page like Facebook, all rendering stops instantaneously. The website will literally never load until your finger is removed, and this all boils down to the fact that the “UI thread is intercepting all events and rendering the UI at real-time priority.”
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