UKNM: Re: Wap Numbers

[Tom Hume]

At 19:11 12/12/2000 +0000, UKNM Digest wrote:


>Its expensive, slow, ugly (in tech terms too) and will be had over by the

>new phones using HTML and bigger screens with OS's like WindowsCE/DOTnet.


WAP has nothing to do with the cost of data services provided by telcos.


It has little to do with the speed or capabilities of underlying networks -

it was designed specifically to run across a wide variety of em.


Can anyone out there who's got one of the Sony web-browsing phones pitch in

with a comment regarding how they compare to WAP?


>We had it pumped down our necks to make up for the research budget that was

>spent on it, no one wants to flush that much cash.


Do you have any figures or references for the "research budget" spent on

WAP? Feel free to reply off-list, it's the first time I've heard that it

involved massive expenditure early on.


>Consumers need something that looks good and not like a loading screen from

>a ZX spectrum in black and white.


So consumers would never go for, say, a clumsy, text-only service offering

at best simple graphics? Like SMS? I think not.


If consumers can achieve their aims (either through genuine utility, or

services specifically designed for "time-wasting") they'll use it. The fact

that there are few useful services out there today for WAP doesn't mean

that it's a dead end.


Tom


(I'll shut up now Sam)



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