(keitai-l) Re: old keitai

WAP vs Imode, as a discussion, is something that needs to be buried. Not
only is it unproductive
but it's misguided. Here's why -

* WAP is a protocol standard. Imode is a branded service. They are not
comparable. People often mistake
WAP to be a service, but no one operator outside of Japan has marketed it as
a branded service (yet).

* Imode's success is only in part due to technology. DoCoMo had much more in
it's
arsenal than a good markup language. Check out this article here for more
insight as to DoCoMo's success
http://www.wirelessworldforum.com/vision_newsreview_002.html

* Discussion is more subjective than objective. It's akin to NT vs Unix or
Mac vs Wintel etc. At the end of
the day people (users) don't give a hoot about the technology, they want a
compelling service (hence the
triumph of Windows over Mac , AC over DC and VHS over BETAMAX).

Graham


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-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Curt Sampson
Sent: 31 July 2001 10:05
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: old keitai


On Tue, 31 Jul 2001, Benjamin Kowarsch wrote:

> Remember, there is nothing wrong with WAP, as long as the charging regime
> you are using is accepted by your user base.

Now this is ironic. One of the reasons for WAP's failure is that,
unlike Docomo's cHTML, WAP is its own independent standard that isn't
interoperable at all with HTML.

So in Japan, the home of those terrible Meji-era folks who hate standards,
I can get a keitai that will let me quite happily read my own home
page, and I can test out my pages designed for keitai on a standard web
browser. If I buy one of these so-called "standard" WAP phones, I lose
both those abilities.

I've regularly cursed those those "s-t-u-p-i-d" "Meji-era" WAP folks
for deciding to come up with their own new and different standard...

cjs
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nihil
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