Uk Users Turn Their Backs On Wap
Martin Burns
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User since: 26 Apr 1999
Articles written: 143
Despite all the hype about
the mobile internet [sic],people who actually have actually
used WAP servicesgave the current state of technology a resounding thumbs-down.
In a field study of WAP users
carried out in London by
title="Usability Guru Jakob's site">Jakob Nielsen and released thisweek, 70% of those who had used WAP said that not only are WAP technologies,services and content not currently usable, the same study subjects alsodon't expect it to be usable at any point in the near future.
No real surprise to me - I can't think of any friends
or colleagues who actually use their spiffy WAP phones. The only peoplebenefitting as far as I can see are Cellnet, mobile phone shops and WAPdevelopers.
Martin Burns has been doing this stuff since Netscape 1.0 days. Starting with the communication ends that online media support, he moved back through design, HTML and server-side code. Then he got into running the whole show. These days he's working for these people as a Project Manager, and still thinks (nearly 6 years on) it's a hell of a lot better than working for a dot-com. In his Copious Free Time™, he helps out running a Cloth Nappies online store.
Amongst his favourite things is Zope
He's been a member of evolt.org since the very early days, a board member, a president, a writer and even contributed a modest amount of template code for the current site. Above all, he likes evolt.org to do things because it knowingly chooses to do so, rather than randomly stumbling into them. He's also one of the boys and girls who beervolts in the UK, although the arrival of small children in his life have knocked the frequency for 6.
Most likely to ask: Why would a client pay you to do that?
Least likely to ask: Why isn't that navigation frame in Flash?
