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Chiefs Defend Slow Network for the iPhone

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/29/technology/29phone.html

On the eve of the Apple iPhone's sale, the top executives of Apple and AT&T defended their decision to rely upon AT&T's slow Edge wireless data network, rather than a faster network that is less widely available. Apple's chief, Steven P. Jobs, saw the choice of network as a trade-off. Early reviews of the iPhone, while positive, have faulted the slower network because it will limit the palm-size wireless computers greatest strength - making the Internet easily accessible on the go.

My View: This is one thing that upsets me about companies today... they have no vision beyond the world of today. First of all, why on Earth is AT&T developing their own cellular and high-speed networks when standards like 3G have large support bases all over the world (minus the US). Secondly, why on Earth would Apple not support AT&T's faster network (as proprietary as it is)? Steve Jobs reasoned that people could use Wi-Fi connections for faster internet access, but as he argued against using the 3G standard, who is going to find a free Wi-Fi network in Ottumwa, Iowa? Silliness, I say, total silliness. One day cellphones will be like computers where you have a little bit of choice over these kinds of standards.

Labels: apple, att, communications, electronics, mobile web

:: Permanent Link :: Posted 6/29/2007 :: 0 Comments :: Links to this post ::

Mini Web grows on small business

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/122/story/76087.html

Johannes Tromp says the Web site for his Lancaster, S.C., bed-and-breakfast generates good business. But last fall, he found a way to reach even more potential customers: He made a version of the site for cell phones. Tromp signed up for a mobile Web address with the newly available suffix ".mobi" and used a self-starter kit from a company called Roundpoint Ltd. to build "www.kilburnie.mobi," the mobile site for his Kilburnie, the Inn at Craig Farm. He says he's gotten a surprisingly good response, with 30 to 40 new calls per month from interested travelers who heard of his inn by accessing the cell phone site.

My View: Mobile web is by far the industry with the most potential for growth. I think that within the next 10 years (if that long), almost everyone in modern society will be connected to the net at all times, including via cellphones or the equivalent device which might be invented in the future. As they said, domain name registrars such as GoDaddy opened the Internet to small businesses with their low cost ".com"s and I think they will do the same for the mobile web. Eventually, having a mobile-enabled site will become yet another necessary piece in the business operations puzzle.

Labels: advertising, mobile web

:: Permanent Link :: Posted 4/06/2007 :: 0 Comments :: Links to this post ::

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