The unitary theory of Mobile Webs

Saturday, November 1. 2008

The unitary theory of Mobile Webs

Dare Obasanjo on the silliness of Planet Mobile in wanting a separate Web:

I recently switched to using Skyfire as my primary browser on my mobile phone and it has made a world of difference in how a use my phone. No longer am I restricted to crippled versions of popular sites nor do I have to lose features when I visit the regular versions of the page. I can view the real version of my news feed on Facebook. Vote up links in reddit or Digg. And reading blogs is no longer an exercise in frustration due to CSS issues or problems rendering widgets. Unsurprisingly my usage of the Web on my phone has pretty much doubled.

This definitely brings to the forefront how ridiculous of an idea it was to think that we need a "mobile Web" complete with its own top level domain (.mobi). Which makes more sense, that every Web site in the world should create duplicate versions of their pages for mobile phones and regular browsers or that software + hardware would eventually evolve to the point where I can run a full fledged browser on the device in my pocket? Thanks to the iPhone, it is now clear to everyone that this idea of a second class Web for mobile phones was a stopgap solution at best whose time is now past.

We agree - we've been banging on about this (I Told Ya So) ever since we helped Tony Fish write Mobile Web 2.0 in 2006. Its been obvious since then that if Mobile form factors move to use the Web then it gets a huge "free benefit". The sad thing is it took outsiders to make Planet Mobile sit up and notice.

Posted by Alan Patrick in Mobile Web 2.0 & Multimedia at 07:18 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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