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Is mobile web dead in the water?
By Keif | April 14, 2008
So a few companies are going under.
It’s the general idea that it’s easy to make a site mobile (or at least tweak it to do so). I still feel it’s a little premature to do so, but it’s quite possible mobile is dead in the water - with Google Android and the iPhone, it’s possible that by the time “mobile web” comes to a more often used fruition that the majority of web-capable (and usable) phones will all ready be at a OS-browser level (maybe not flash, but I digress).
The point is - will mobile applications replace the mobile web, which in turn will become nothing more than “less flashy” web sites that can be browsed via basic HTML/CSS/Javascript sites?
Extra Credit:
A friend mentioned the Sourceforge project for WURFL.
On the other hand, WURFL is deployed at carriers and portals around the globe. Developers from around the world send us device info on a daily basis.
To add to that, we import data from UAProf profile and manually fix the UAprof data that we discover to be wrong. In terms of adoption, WURFL is today more popular than pure UAProf solutions.
It deserves more looking into, for sure.
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