April 12, 2003
Cell Phone Browser War
Per Wireless News Factor, the cell phone browser war has only just begun. "Really, the mobile Internet is more of a gleam in a futurist's eye than a market reality. Ninety percent of users talk and send text messages quite happily without a browser. But it's surely on the way.
As the competition for wireless browser market share heats up, it will bear no resemblance to Browser War I. The PC world is sedate by comparison to the Wild West chaos of the cell phone market.
Competing technology standards make it unclear which protocol browser makers should build for and Government regulation is a wild card.
Again, Microsoft is one of the horses in the race. But it won't be able to simply build on past success. In fact, it could lose this one". Let's hope so.
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