Curt,
(1) what is WAP?
everything has its features in the core and on the surface,
and everything has life and develops. card stack was designed
5 years ago for the analog CDPD bearer. we needed it before,
but if you don't like it, the leave it and WAP is still WAP.
(2) easy to write?
yes, but the wireless part of major content providers cost less
than 10% of over all operational cost. how much you can squeeze
from that 5-10%? but WAP saves a lot over the wireless network,
a way more precious resource.
other things to remember:
- DoCoMo will terminate C-HTML in their own hands.
- XML, on which WML is base, will replace HTML.
ever read the C-HTML paper on W3C site?
- i-mode, came from WAP and will return to WAP.
it's easier to convert WML to C-HTML but EZweb now provides good
service to access i-mode sites. J-Phone has been supporting
C-HTML for long time, but within the network, C-HTML/HTTP should
not be the way to go.
(3) user behavior
I don't think we can agree easily. I haven't seen any detailed
study on the market segments and their behaviors. so whatever.
cheers,
Ken
From: Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net>
Reply-To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: GSM, PDC and proprietary systems
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2002 12:49:38 +0900 (JST)
On Sun, 23 Jun 2002, Ken Chang wrote:
>they don't want to use WAP but do they have a choice?
Sure. cHTML.
You go on about how great WAP is, but really, it's a pain in the ass.
Extra features such as the "card stack" thing are great if you've got
a teeny tiny display, but once you're able to deliver 5K pages, that
feature is usless; you're generally at a point where the web server
needs to process user input before it can figure out what the user needs
to see next.
The first thing I noticed when my last company started building i-mode
and WAP versions of the web site was how much easier and cheaper it was
to build the i-mode site. We could use our standard tools, a fairly
familar language, and didn't have to order a big expensive specification
and wait for it to arrive in the mail.
Even one of the creators of i-Mode said in an interview recently that he
believed one of the reasons it was successful was because it was much
easier to make content for. Having compared i-Mode and WAP development
personally, I can well believe this.
>btw, Michael, I do believe DoCoMo subscribers leave phones on
>longer, because they are on average richer. many girls who
>use J-Phone often have to turn the mobile off while working.
I don't understand how this would make any difference at all. If you
leave the phone on vibrate and ignore the incoming call it costs you
nothing anyway. (For that matter, it costs you nothing if you take the
call.) And if you turn on your phone after work, you still have to pay
the same to download the e-mail as you would if you had let it download
earlier.
cjs
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