Comments on: Android and iPhone ring the changes – is the mobile web dead? http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/ Social media platforms & web publishing services Sun, 17 May 2009 21:53:50 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Wessel van Rensburg http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2505 Wessel van Rensburg Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:54:52 +0000 http://zuluzulu.net/?p=265#comment-2505 Nope, not yet. I thought at first that supplying RSS feeds is enough. But your right I need to add email as many still prefer that. Hope to do so over the next few coming days. Nope, not yet. I thought at first that supplying RSS feeds is enough. But your right I need to add email as many still prefer that. Hope to do so over the next few coming days.

]]> By: Michael Graaf http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2470 Michael Graaf Sat, 27 Sep 2008 14:11:35 +0000 http://zuluzulu.net/?p=265#comment-2470 Of course I meant to say GSM, not GPRS. On the issue of cost, firstly it will drop steeply once economies of scale kick in, and secondly service providers will subsidise handsets to capture market share. Of course the consumer still pays but over time, and most people don't think long-term. Is there a facility for subscribing to ZuluZulu by email? If so I haven't spotted it. Of course I meant to say GSM, not GPRS.

On the issue of cost, firstly it will drop steeply once economies of scale kick in, and secondly service providers will subsidise handsets to capture market share. Of course the consumer still pays but over time, and most people don’t think long-term.

Is there a facility for subscribing to ZuluZulu by email? If so I haven’t spotted it.

]]> By: The long hangover - the ongoing trouble with mobile advertising — ZuluZulu http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2462 The long hangover - the ongoing trouble with mobile advertising — ZuluZulu Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:40:32 +0000 http://zuluzulu.net/?p=265#comment-2462 [...] as I mentioned in my previous post. Operator portals are about to start discovering what Yahoo! and MSN did on the web not too long [...] [...] as I mentioned in my previous post. Operator portals are about to start discovering what Yahoo! and MSN did on the web not too long [...]

]]> By: Wessel van Rensburg http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2457 Wessel van Rensburg Thu, 25 Sep 2008 18:51:32 +0000 http://zuluzulu.net/?p=265#comment-2457 'I expect that the growth in web access in the “developing” world will be straight from GPRS to smartphones, leapfrogging the WAP system.' Don't you think the cost would be prohibitive at first Michael? Then again you might have a point. The content available on the open Web is imcomparable to the mobile WAP web, and potentially of imense value in the developing world. Perhaps we'll see a $100 smartphone all over Africa before we see Negropontes $100 laptop? ‘I expect that the growth in web access in the “developing” world will be straight from GPRS to smartphones, leapfrogging the WAP system.’

Don’t you think the cost would be prohibitive at first Michael? Then again you might have a point. The content available on the open Web is imcomparable to the mobile WAP web, and potentially of imense value in the developing world.

Perhaps we’ll see a $100 smartphone all over Africa before we see Negropontes $100 laptop?

]]> By: Michael Graaf http://zuluzulu.net/android-and-iphone-ring-the-changes-is-the-mobile-web-dead/comment-page-1/#comment-2456 Michael Graaf Thu, 25 Sep 2008 15:28:06 +0000 http://zuluzulu.net/?p=265#comment-2456 If "mobile web" means WA, then of course the answer to your question is yes. But another way of seeing convergence is that the whole web will now be mobile. I expect that the growth in web access in the "developing" world will be straight from GPRS to smartphones, leapfrogging the WAP system. Being open-source, Android will evolve rapidly and could easily dominate the mobile device market in a few years. If “mobile web” means WA, then of course the answer to your question is yes. But another way of seeing convergence is that the whole web will now be mobile. I expect that the growth in web access in the “developing” world will be straight from GPRS to smartphones, leapfrogging the WAP system.

Being open-source, Android will evolve rapidly and could easily dominate the mobile device market in a few years.

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