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Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 18:20:02


Valdis(_dot_)Kletnieks(_at_)vt(_dot_)edu wrote:

On Fri, 30 Jun 2000 19:12:26 +0200, Anthony Atkielski 
<anthony(_at_)atkielski(_dot_)com>  said:
Anyway, I have a really good instinct for picking technology winners, and
thus far I put WAP in the same category as MiniDiscs, bubble memory, color
fax machines, and quadraphonic sound.  I think the growth area is in:

The MiniDisc died.  MP3 is a big business.  People wanted the functionality.


The MD is in no way dead. There are MILLIONS of them in Japan and across Asia. 
MDs never
took off in the US/Europe, but that doesn't relegate it to the betmax 
graveyard. When 1
billion Chinese are recording their MP3s onto MDs and memory sticks, would you 
call that
a dead technology?

WAP may die like the other stuff mentioned above.  However, people DO want
the functionality - or something like it.

Absolutely. Whatever the technical standard, mobile computing is not going away.


Regards,
r e n

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