Web.Mobile and Fictional Power Users

Personal computers are not fancy and powerful glorified televisions. Mobile phones are not tiny and powerful glorified personal computers. Lois Kahn insisted materials inherently wanted to be something, to serve a specific purpose - "a brick wants to be an arch"... Is more powerful broadcast media distribution really the future for the internet? And why is this the best thing for mobile devices?

The Times [uk] article linked below looks at a survey determining a lack of interest in mobile internet among youths. There are no young power-users for the mobile internet. Why? Because mobile internet... sucks. There is no killer app. The phone interfaces are all terrible for anything other than making calls, and even that simple function lacks in many designs. Bandwidth is lacking, connectivity is slow, privacy issues are terrible, mobile browsers are weak, and 99% of websites just don't cater to the small screens of mobile devices.

full article [via MocoNews]