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To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (2118)	2/16/2000 9:33:00 PM
From: RocketMan	Respond to of 10718

Because CREE has come up with the technology to allow handset manufacturers to expand the size of the screens, we should see less reliance on WAP in general. After all, if your have a larger screen, why worry about cutting out graphics and other "information". Robert, I agree with the benefits of a larger screen, but I doubt if LED technology will have that much impact on WAP for many years. There is a lot of tailoring and customizing that has to be done between a full HTML graphics screen and a WAP screen. It is night and day. In addition CREE's relationship with MVIS could lead to the outright dumping of all WAP technology (this would be a few years out) through the "beaming" of the screen into one's eyes. Again, it is not so easy, how could you ever do precision pointing and scanning of the retina in anywhere except a well controlled laboratory situation?

To: Robert Sheldon who wrote (2118)	2/21/2000 4:04:00 PM
From: Robert Sheldon	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 10718

More WAP obsolence stuff . . . looks like I am gaining some allies: Irwin Jacobs (*IJ) of QCOM at the QCOM analyst meeting on 2/17/2000 made the following comment about WAP: "Chipset won't support WAP" "Need for WAP will go away" In the Feb 21 2000 Forbes ASAP Bob Metcalfe was interviewed on several areas and he had this to say: "According to Metcalfe's Law, when some application of networking becomes so specialized it needs proprietary protocols incompatible with other networks, that is generally a bad idea. We're having that argument right now with wireless. The wireless networking people have developed their own protocol called WAP, wireless application protocol. They are making the argument that the wireless media is so different from all other media, and little cellular phones are so different from PCs, that they really need a protocol of their own. I'm hoping Metcalfe's Law helps them decide that's a really bad idea. They had better be sure that the wireless infrastructure they are building can interoperate with the Internet, or else they are going to lose the benefits of that quadratic gain in value." forbes.com Seriously, if you own WAP related companies you better make sure why.