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| Subject: | MobileLBSList: Meet the new boss...Same as the old boss? |
| Date: |
11/07/2000 12:34:53 PM |
| From: |
Bryan Morgan |
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Samsung and VoiceStream announced plans today to produce a GPRS phone based
on the Microsoft Mobile Explorer and Stinger platforms.
http://www.wirelessdevnet.com/news/2000/311/news4.html
What's interesting about the MSFT platform is that it supports HTML
<b>and</b> WAP. Despite all the arguing back and forth over the superiority
of WML/i-Mode and the subsequent move to XHTML, Microsoft's dual support
makes sense to me. In that case, who cares which technology you're using.
At the end of the day, the browser simply displays data handed to it by the
parser.
1st question: How difficult would it be for the Phone.com's of the world to
simply support a dummied-down subset of HTML?
2nd question: Why aren't they doing it?
3rd question: What evil plan does Microsoft have behind all of this (if
any) to somehow ensnare us all yet again??
:-)
Bryan
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