http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2006/08/07/mobile-is-not-web/ Mobile, Security, Web 2.0, Pipe Dreams and More Thu, 09 Sep 2010 05:02:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.7 http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2006/08/07/mobile-is-not-web/#comment-375 Wed, 30 Aug 2006 00:39:13 +0000 http://hip2b2.yutivo.org/2006/08/07/mobile-is-not-web/#comment-375 [...] Usability. The Mobile Web is rudimentary when it comes to Web site quality and ease of navigation. This first issue attacks the usability aspect of the mobile web. In a previous blog, I bring up and discussed some of the reasons the Mobile Web is limited. In the Internet days, this was also a major problem. Usability was also not that good. The typical early 1990 Internet user was a power user who was typically ex-BBSer, a computer professional or hobbyist. These are people who can work around the usability problems. Then, as usability improved, more and more non-power users began accepting the media. The key was sites, like Yahoo, E-Bay and the other dotcoms, that made the Internet interesting and easy to use for to the common people given the current limits of technology. The same thing is happening in the mobile web now. The typical users today are still the power users. [...] […] Usability. The Mobile Web is rudimentary when it comes to Web site quality and ease of navigation. This first issue attacks the usability aspect of the mobile web. In a previous blog, I bring up and discussed some of the reasons the Mobile Web is limited. In the Internet days, this was also a major problem. Usability was also not that good. The typical early 1990 Internet user was a power user who was typically ex-BBSer, a computer professional or hobbyist. These are people who can work around the usability problems. Then, as usability improved, more and more non-power users began accepting the media. The key was sites, like Yahoo, E-Bay and the other dotcoms, that made the Internet interesting and easy to use for to the common people given the current limits of technology. The same thing is happening in the mobile web now. The typical users today are still the power users. […]

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