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To: Bill Harmond who wrote (116377)	1/28/2001 11:52:26 PM
From: Victor Lazlo	Respond to of 164684

"WAP Standard Faces Hurdles in Bringing Net to Devices" Investors Business Daily, Jan 23, 2001. pg A8 "Critics say yet-to-be-invented technologies will supersede WAP long before it can gather much steam. In fact, they say an existing standard that is popular in Japan, I-mode, already has stolen WAP's thunder. ...... ..... competing technologies , such as Microsoft Corp. and AT&T Wireless Services, Inc. ... "WAP is like the emperor who had no clothes," said Jakob Nielsen, a pertner in the Nielsen Norman Group, a Fremont, Calif., company that analyzes Internet ease of use. So many companies have committed to WAP that they can't admit it's a dud, Nielsen says. In November, Nielsen tested WAP phone usability in London with 20 experienced cell-phone users. .... At the end, 70% of Nielsen's WAP testers decided they didn't want WAP-enabled mobile phones. They found the text hard to read, the interface tricky to navigate, and the downloads slow, Nielsen says. "Our basic conclusion is that WAP fails miserably," he said. "Even the simplest of tasks takes much too long to provide any user satisfaction. " More doubt about WAP came from a survey the same month by WAPtoo, a Paris firm that develops WAP sites. The company tested 400 sites and found that only 83 worked on current WAP-enabled phones. The high failure rate of WAP causes public "distrust and disappointment"," the firm said. A September sampling by Dallas-based AnywhereYouGo.com which tests wireless applications found 132 of 689 WAP sites did not work.