> ... By having such a dominant position on the handset market,
> and then not having any decent mobile Internet capable handsets (they have
> still not shown a functional GPRS phone) they are perhaps they have
> effectively stopped development.
One could think Nokia as the Mobile Microsoft and PC industry ;-) Just
think about all the goodies e.g. Apple brings to the market and people still
have to use Windows and PC's..
What is the Mobile Internet anyway? If you look at an average web site, 90%
of them will not work in any mobile network, not in GSM or i-mode, or with
any handset available anywhere. Too many of them hardly work on your
favourite PC. The browser vendors can barely have all the features
supported on all the platforms and across new versions.
Personally I blame two reasons, lack of openness in the mobile networks and
greed. Greed like creating inefficient pricing structures and building
instant profit instead of creating a platform for development.
Petri
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Received on Fri Aug 10 14:03:46 2001