Josh sends link:
""Imo, this will indirectly benefit next gen mobile computing/ and next gen mobile browsing, as the iphone will morph more into a mobile computer. My prediction is that other phone manufacturers will head in a similar direction, especially with respect to standard web browsing on a phone. The need for WAP compliant or mobile compliant websites may indeed diminish over the medium/long term. If this is correct, then .mobi's touted importance of it's technical edge in delivering mobile friendly web content will diminish.
If .mobi is more of a marketing play, then it's still up in the air, imo, as it's possible that future web sites will look fine on desktops, laptops and phones, without needing to tweak the content for phones.""
***FS*** I agree with you.
Maybe, but at the moment these browser only account for a small percentage. Maybe 1% iPhone and similar for Windows. It is Firefox on Symbian Operating System that is really going to make the feathers fly!
Posted by: David Wrixon | October 19, 2007 at 01:29 PM
Websites already look fine on laptops and desktops, but how do you fit an entire regular website onto a mobile phone screen and make all the content legible? Some maybe, but you wouldn't be able to read the links on the right and left sides of this very blog on a mobile phone screen, for example. It just seems like common sense.
Posted by: Robb | October 20, 2007 at 03:06 AM
...i wonder what technical edge .TV has.
oh wait, none.
even WITH the greatest undisputed technical edge in the world, new TLD's need some sort of marketing play or nobody will ever know about em.
cant blame mTLD for workin all angels, the first part of marketing has already begun.. the difference is the audience are speculators, developers, fortune 500 companies, etc.
Posted by: Matthew Nelson | October 20, 2007 at 09:49 AM
Rob,
That is exactly what the iPhone does only very slowly. Most people are blown away by that when they first experience it. Windows does the same.
The point is that if set up on Dot Mobi, you are going to be locked into obsolete standards supporting legacy equipment. If you run it on a dot com you can move as technical standards and market requirements demand.
Posted by: David Wrixon | October 21, 2007 at 10:45 AM
I would think .mobi could change their mobile standards if need be, there would be no 'locking in' forever. The small screen of the iphone would still be an issue for some people, IMO, just not for all websites.
Posted by: Robb | October 22, 2007 at 03:01 PM
Forget about those cowboys...
How do you like them apples!
(seen the news after hours...??)
Posted by: owen Frager | October 22, 2007 at 05:35 PM