Re: UKNM: Ranty philosophy

[Mike Down]

Current estimates of about of 1 Billion mobile phones by 2003 (offhand this

is 3 or 4 times the predicted number of computer based internet

connections).


Forget  WAP as a serious long term development route. Users are updating

their mobiles every 20 months on average. If that trend contiues and the new

generations of combi phone/organizer/browsers are rolled out then this

should mean that  a good proportion of these mobiles will have PDA size

screens and Micro-browsers built in . Content development will be a lot

easier than for WAP as well. OK there will still be limitations but it's

certainly a nice growth market that I'll be looking at.


Mike Down


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From: Tom Hume <

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Date: 07 December 2000 17:02

Subject: Re: UKNM: Ranty philosophy



Do you really see the future of the net as being bound to desktop PCs? At a

time when growth rates for PC sales are slowing (1), and the number of

other devices which can provide net access is rising (phones - whether that

be through WAP, I-mode, HDML or SMS; PDAs; games consoles; DTV set-top

boxes), I think that's anything but true.


I'd expect to see the demographic of yer typical net user change as cheaper

means of getting online than a �1500 PC become commonplace, and

merchants/content providers realise the importance of producing

consumer-focused services (as opposed to those which assume any technical

know-how or net.familiarity) which can be accessed using cheap devices.


You're right about certain DTV offerings being glorified teletext tho ;)

(which is not to say that they're not successful)


(1) see

http://news.ft.com/ft/gx.cgi/ftc?pagename=View&c=Article&cid=FT32B12W6GC&liv

e=true&tagid=YYY9BSINKTM&useoverridetemplate=IXLZHNNP94C



At 12:00 07/12/2000 +0000, Jonathan Worsley wrote:

>The Internet will remain firmly with the desktop. TV will remiain TV, it'll

>will just have a more advanced teletext system.

>

>Anyway, the internet is for As, Bs & C1s - TV is for C2, Ds & Es.



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