Why is/was WAP+GRPS so difficult??
Why is UK seen as (all of) Europe??
(Most europeans as well as english disagree<g>)
What would have happened if any wireless protocol would have started from HTML,
by adding improvements to it?? ("It's about a vision of convergence.")
With a little traditional help from Microsoft??
Note that I replaced my traditional "Why is WAP+GRPS so difficult??" with an optional
""Why was WAP+GRPS so difficult??"
(the article was actually already mostly history, from some point of views maybe
already revisionist history)
Ilmarinen
Btw, wapping over GPRS is really nice, no need to get stressed as the minutes tick and tick.
A similar relief as when I moved from regular modem (with per minute cost in Finland) to
DSL.
Soon my 80 year old godmother can sit at her kitchen table and pay,okay bills, check to make
really sure her pension has arrived (hasn't been a problem in 20 years, gvmnt pension, but
keeping up old habits and skills are good at that age)
Similar for my "really rural cousins", no need to drive into town and the bank twice a month,
now they have to come up with another excuse.
But the 8310 is not yet for that market segment, my bet is on the follow up to the 7110.
(display, large enough keyboard ,etc)
Or maybe the GPRS version of the 5510, maybe even the communcator??
(I saw the glimpse in my godmother's eyes when I showed it, maybe next xmas)
Btw, note my use of "okay bills", the bills are sent to her WAP banking account, she
just needto step through and then press enter for OK. (and still gets a paper copy by mail) |
