UKNM: the internet on your phone - yeah right!

[lee]

yes ... WAP has only got about a year left then it's hello to a WAP/ i-Mode

hybrid.


Generally I hope people have learnt a lot in the last year or so and also in

many ways.


We, (the general public), were all hyped into believing that we could get

the Internet on our phones.

This is actually a very true and very false statement.

As we all know, the Internet is made up of many entities - Web, FTP, e-mail,

newsgroups etc. So in effect, because text is part of the web, yes ... we

can access the Internet on our phones.

BUT

The general public perception of the Internet is in fact the Web - text,

pictures, software, movies blah, yadda and doesn't include e-mail FTP,

newsgroups et all, so, in contradictary terms, NO we cannot access the

internet on our phones because we can't get full screen Madonna live from

Brixton in .WMF.


I am really glad that:

1, I have been involved in "the internet business" for ages, (7 years next

february to be exact), and therefore know what is and isn't true/ possible.

2, Never subscribe to hype in any form.

3, Don't believe anything in the press.

4, Can see what the future will be bringing.


What is needed is a "start again" attitude to the net in that we educate the

general public on what the Internet _really_ is and what the differences

between the Internet and the Web/ newsgroups/ e-mail etc and where they all

fit together.


Ask any member of the general public if they, for example,:

Can leave the shopping to their fridge that reads bar codes on all the

products in it.

Watch, shop and surf on a widescreen TV with surround sound.

Broadcast live from a DVCam embedded in their jacket.



Most won't even know that all this is actually possible nowadays and those

that do will _probably_ say that you can do these on the web!


Lee



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