>Gustaf Rosell wrote:
>In my view phone.com/Openwave is one of the companies that we may
>"grateful" for for having WAP. They were one of the driving forces behind
Why the " "? Do you think that consumers in Europe would have been happier
if there was another technology in place? You would still have the crappy
handsets of the Western manufacturers (well, including some Japanese too)
without color, circuit switched instead of packet switched, impossibility
of some network operators to bill for content, etc. etc.
So, don't blame that on WAP.
>It has also been proven in many cases that they have continued to deliver
>proprietary HDML solutions rather than standard look-a-like WML. This is
>quite clear in the case of EZWeb, where the format is an extended version
>of HDML.
And what could be the reason for that then? Hmmm, would it be that there
were
already a lot of HDML users around and they didn't want to alienate this
customer base or alienate the companies developing for their portal by going
for the improved technology. No, can't be, can it? ;-)
>It may also be part of the reason for why there is not very much
>content for EZWeb. Several content developers have clearly said that they
>dislike the format and capabilitiesis of EZWeb.
Hmmm, I am thinking again. Could it have anything to do with the huge
market power that DoCoMo has? No, probably not. ;-)
Please Gustaf, don't make the same mistake as many others do by determining
a direct relationship between phenomena and what could have caused them.
Most of these relationships are indirect. That is why people in the Medieval
Europe
thought that being a leather-craftsman would magically keep you from being
sacrificed by the Black Plague. We all know now that it was the urine that
they used to soften the skins that scared the infectuous flees away.
>In this perspective Openwave's solutions are just not fit, and this is
>valid also for their new solutions as far as I see.
Ah, and which scripting language would deliver the URL that includes an
object
(whether it is a midlet) to the Phone? Openwave (and WAP) is NOT only
about this scripting language. It also is about a lot of other layers in the
OSI network layer model, including gateway technology.
Paul
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Received on Wed Feb 7 21:18:27 2001