In a further affront on the DoComo phones the 2 browsers don't even share
the same packet plan. Even though I have the all-you-use packet plan, it
doesn't apply to the 'full browser'. The guy at the shop warned me that
accessing Yahoo's top page would cost me 60yen a go..
On 11/11/05 11:27 AM, "Kyle Barrow" <kyle@pukupi.com> wrote:
> On Nov 7, 2005, at 09:56, Curt Sampson wrote:
>
>>
>>> Do DOCOMO have a financial incentive in keeping browser capabilities
>>> limited, or is this just slothfullness/arrogance/inertia/NIH (Not
>>> Invented Here)?
>>
>> It could be some of both, but I have this weird little suspicion
>> that a
>> fairly powerful force on this is that Docomo does not want to outrace
>> the vendors that are creating the websites.
>>
>> At this point, most Docomo websites are pretty much the same, and new
>> capabilities are added slowly enough that the dumb vendors can easily
>> keep up with the smart ones. This avoids having a small number of web
>> sites stand out and make the others look bad, which in turn probably
>> helps avoid "confusion in the market" and suchlike.
>
> You can see this strategy in the release "PC site" browsers on their
> newer mobiles. These use the latest Netfront browser which, like
> Opera, can seamlessly switch between full and small screen modes and
> does a pretty good job at rendering XHTML and CSS.
>
> But on Docomo's mobiles, switching to small screen mode also switches
> to the ubiquitous standards abhorrent Netfront browser found on every
> other Docomo mobile, the two browsers don't even share the same
> bookmarks.
>
> Kyle
Received on Fri Nov 11 06:36:06 2005