Comments on: The future of the Mobile Web is strong http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong blogging about life, the universe, and everything tech Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:08:49 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Shane Murphy http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong/comment-page-1#comment-39759 Shane Murphy Fri, 17 Oct 2008 16:34:45 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong#comment-39759 Hey Dion, Fully agree that mobile is far from dead. It's quite ridiculous to say that it is given all the key metrics are growing eg handset sales, mobile internet usage etc. Your blog inspired me to write my own but taking this from a consumer marketing perspective. Check out www.opinionsandonions.com Shane Hey Dion,

Fully agree that mobile is far from dead. It’s quite ridiculous to say that it is given all the key metrics are growing eg handset sales, mobile internet usage etc.

Your blog inspired me to write my own but taking this from a consumer marketing perspective. Check out http://www.opinionsandonions.com

Shane

]]> By: Matthew McCullough http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong/comment-page-1#comment-38421 Matthew McCullough Tue, 15 Apr 2008 16:02:59 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong#comment-38421 1) Where'd you get that great photo? It really captures the essence of the blog post. 2) Perhaps Android and the iPhone SDK are the "redux" of the mobile web. Only time and market acceptance will tell. 1) Where’d you get that great photo? It really captures the essence of the blog post.

2) Perhaps Android and the iPhone SDK are the “redux” of the mobile web. Only time and market acceptance will tell.

]]> By: Raffy Banks http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong/comment-page-1#comment-38420 Raffy Banks Tue, 15 Apr 2008 15:09:39 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong#comment-38420 I agree with Ray Cromwell, there is a huge mental hurdle to the mobile web. The iPhone helped a lot of people "get it". I used pull out my phone, start looking up movie times and my girlfriend's eyes would roll. Now she is snatching the phone right out of my hands wanting to browse he favorite sites. I agree with Ray Cromwell, there is a huge mental hurdle to the mobile web. The iPhone helped a lot of people “get it”.

I used pull out my phone, start looking up movie times and my girlfriend’s eyes would roll. Now she is snatching the phone right out of my hands wanting to browse he favorite sites.

]]> By: James Pearce http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong/comment-page-1#comment-38416 James Pearce Tue, 15 Apr 2008 11:31:16 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong#comment-38416 +1. The tribulations of one business does not a medium's failure make. (although I think the world of both Russ & Mike). I think we all know that the made-for-mobile web is an inevitability. But in fact the Mowser business (in the short term) was a bet *against* a made-for-mobile web... gently weaning users off the sedentary web experience while the web development community got round to creating a critical mass of made-for-mobile content. It's a shame that Mowser didn't get further since they are talented individuals, and really did *get* mobile. +1. The tribulations of one business does not a medium’s failure make.

(although I think the world of both Russ & Mike).

I think we all know that the made-for-mobile web is an inevitability.

But in fact the Mowser business (in the short term) was a bet *against*
a made-for-mobile web… gently weaning users off the sedentary web
experience while the web development community got round to creating a
critical mass of made-for-mobile content.

It’s a shame that Mowser didn’t get further since they are talented
individuals, and really did *get* mobile.

]]> By: Ray Cromwell http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong/comment-page-1#comment-38413 Ray Cromwell Tue, 15 Apr 2008 07:32:23 +0000 http://almaer.com/blog/the-future-of-the-mobile-web-is-strong#comment-38413 , I spent years in the HDML/WML/XHTML-MP/WAP hell-hole, the insane thing was, I hated using "mobile" apps. The screens were small, the input method extremely frustrating, the rendering slow, and the networks uber slow. The only reason SMS worked nice was because of the asynchrony of it: a native UI experience (no delay to go enter a message), and no synchronous waiting for the send/receive, fire-and-forget, SMTP/UUCP style. Honestly, it wasn't until my first experience with the iPhone that truly felt the mobile web had any potential. The devices are finally getting fast enough, snappy enough, with large enough readable displays, and good user input (I *like* the touch screen), that I can see real, useful apps running on them. My only beef with iPhone is lack of 3G (soon to be rectified I think), and not adhering to other mobile standards/defacto standards (No MMS, no voice dial, no Jabber, no Flash, vCard/iCal attachments, etc) I mean, take Safari on iPhone. I think the touchscreen interface is a quantum leap over directional thumb key approaches, it's like playing a first person shooter with keyboard vs mouse. The ability to move around fluidly, zoom in/out quickly, all of it is critical for using small screen devices. In the end, the enemy is UI/network latency, and the more a mobile phone can do to ease or hide this, the better. ,
I spent years in the HDML/WML/XHTML-MP/WAP hell-hole, the insane thing was, I hated using “mobile” apps. The screens were small, the input method extremely frustrating, the rendering slow, and the networks uber slow. The only reason SMS worked nice was because of the asynchrony of it: a native UI experience (no delay to go enter a message), and no synchronous waiting for the send/receive, fire-and-forget, SMTP/UUCP style.

Honestly, it wasn’t until my first experience with the iPhone that truly felt the mobile web had any potential. The devices are finally getting fast enough, snappy enough, with large enough readable displays, and good user input (I *like* the touch screen), that I can see real, useful apps running on them. My only beef with iPhone is lack of 3G (soon to be rectified I think), and not adhering to other mobile standards/defacto standards (No MMS, no voice dial, no Jabber, no Flash, vCard/iCal attachments, etc)

I mean, take Safari on iPhone. I think the touchscreen interface is a quantum leap over directional thumb key approaches, it’s like playing a first person shooter with keyboard vs mouse. The ability to move around fluidly, zoom in/out quickly, all of it is critical for using small screen devices.

In the end, the enemy is UI/network latency, and the more a mobile phone can do to ease or hide this, the better.

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