Interesting post on where the mobile internet lives over on the blog for the guys from 5th Finger International.
Funny point about the .mobi domain hardly being used at all. I personally disagree with segregating mobile content sites out. I hate to use the ‘C‘ word again, but so far as internet publishing is concerned, it’s all about Convergence.
And don’t get me started on all these iPhone specific sites. Wrong, wrong, wrong !!!
It’s like we didn’t learn from all the “Made for Internet Explorer” debacles over a decade ago. Sites targeted to a specific browser are wrong, I don’t care how sexy the concept seems now. We’ve already been down this road for the PC and it took us many, many years before we got to a point where the web was generally consumable by anyone on any PC browser.
I’m all for segmenting the mobile experience into down-level vs. up-level rendering, but this latest trend of going down-level vs. iPhone is the work of the devil I tell yah. Can’t we just skip all the teething problems that internet development went through over the last 10 years and jump straight into mobile web at the same maturity level as we are for PC?
Disclaimers:
- I own an iPhone and have hated it as a phone pretty much since I got it. (It’s a great convergence device though)
- In my role at ninemsn I head up the developer team for the Australian arm of 5th Finger.
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