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25th April, 2008
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Mobile web 2.0 alliance?

Just saw an article on TheRegister about mobile web 2.0.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/04/24/china_mobile_vodafone_widgets/

Below is my thoughts.
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Depending on mobile companies to build mobile web 2.0 is a lost cause.

Simply working out a "compatibility" list takes about 1 month of research for any development agencies willing to plunge in.

Then you have to work out a way to make whatever you're making to look good and well in the different screen sizes and shapes of each different mobile phones.

Now if nokia is giving more of the phone's ability to the web dev - it just complicates things even more - yet another compatibility list is need for widgets.

And we'll also have to cross check which phone has what ability using the widget system.

Waste of time at best - if mobile companies actually provide us web devs with a publicly accessible resource/SDK - then I might take a look. But as it is - developing for mobile web is simply unaffordable to most businesses that rakes in little/no return.

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