Below is a quote by Ericsson's head of corporate ventures, Justin
Chamberlain. Taken from cre@teonline issue 2, august 2000.
"i-mode is a walled garden and not truly mobile Internet, which
restricts the development of creative new services. WAP has been
optimized as a standard for mobile internet by the independent
WAP forum."
This quote somehow makes me smile. The existing i-mode services
are usually far more creative than any WAP service I have yet
seen. Also I don't feel that WAP is an open standard. It is
a standard developed by a closed forum (of well if you pay
you can join). Even though i-mode uses NTT DoCoMos proprietary
network technology, the rest of it uses IMO far more open
standards than WAP.
Or does anyone agree with me? :)
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Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Tue Oct 17 22:37:09 2000