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To: pcstel who wrote (109392)	12/9/2001 2:45:15 AM
From: engineer	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

You missed the point entirely. the point is that right now, everyone including the carriers think in terms of some little cellphone thing with some tiny screen that you can fit into your pocket and that displays real time vidoes as you carry it arround with some micro interface that you can use to type in characters like your PC. Same Microsoft brain-dead "do what we did yesterday" crap. the point is that what is needed to expand wireless data has not even hit yet. In 1990, the INternet was seen as some Military thing that nobody used much, but was there because ARPA gave them alot of money to establish it, called it Arpanet. And all acceses were FTP and command lines. Everyone was saying that it had little potential as a commerical carrier. then by 1995, it was the hottest new new thing. It all changed with HTML and point and click acces that made it posssible for every person to get on the internet. It fueled growth rates in PC sales unheard of before. then after 4 years of Netscape, along came Microsoft who took it upon themselves to screw up Netscape by NOT FIXING bugs that Netscape encountered and everyone had internet. My claim is that everyone is focused on the applications that should ride at the top layer, just as they were thinking of new ways for file transfers to take place, when the real inovation was to provide the medium channel and by innvoation, new middleware was invented which allowed the whole thing to unwind. I do not think that BREW is the answer here. I think it is some exploitation of a hardware device along with some new software device which will alter how we think and use the Internet via wireless devices. The idea that VZ and PCS will sit and wait for years while the braindead guys at Microsoft keep funding places like Wireless KNowledge in the hopes that they capture all your personal data and can therefore charge you a giant fee while your dribbling along with old tired wireline designed apps for laptops is the very root of the problem. Once they figure out that the real killer app is the channel itself and just turn it on at a low bulk rate (like 3 cents a mintue all minutes all the time) or just a few cents per megabyte, then it will take off. Now for your last point....."not make it near free"....aren't you the "data is free" guy? Too much beer tonight?