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I was thinking about posters' comments that .mobi is not needed, that it's just another way for ICANN to rip us off, that the Telcos are behind it and that the only domains that ARE needed are simply the dot commons and the primary International tlds.
But it occured to me....
It's not just Telcos... it's the manufacturers, the networks, the content providers, the advertisers... They consider the Portable marketing its own International TLD... it's own "world".
Cell Phones outnumber Desktops over 4 to 1. Cellular Networks already HAVE their own "internet" built. Verizon, for instance, has been operating an Intranet for quite some time now and explains why they are the one major network player against .mobi (now, their competition).
As for needing it... Take the ext. out of the discussion... there NEEDS to be a standardization for Portables. Some way to ensure that a website will work on them.
While the Internet Marketing World seeks to find bigger, brighter, fancier ways to deliver content and presentation rich website environments, the Portables are unable to process these advancements. Businesses that spend huge amounts of money for Java Scripting, PHP, ASP, Flash and other website enhancemens are unaware that their websites will simply be ignored by the 400% MORE portable Internet users.
As a Business, now that it's done (whether I like it or not) I am now in a position to either change mywebsite to be compatible with a cell standard (reverse design evolution), pray and hope that someone comes out with a script that will automatically deliver one website for desktops versus another for Mobiles, set up a Mobile Page on my cell and redisign my home page to give users/visitors and option that actually WORKS on a Mobile... or....
Simply buy a .mobi and redirect it to a page on my current website that is compliant with Mobiles.
For $15 bucks... I'll to that. And the Huge Corporations behind the .mobi movement will spend the money and take the stress in educating the mass markets in expecting to find my website there at .mobi waiting for my customers.
It is not WE they need to convice to use .mobi, to use it as a standard, to realize that when you see .mobi attached to a domain, that it virtually guarentees that it will wortk quickly, effieciently and perfectly on one's mobile.... not we....
It's the Billions of Cell Phone Users that are the NEXT generation of Mobile Internet Users.
Sheep, lemmings, sponges.... call them what you will but check out the local high school, Taco Bell on a Saturday or the line at the movie theater on a Friday Night...You'll see them by the thousands... Early Adopters of technology standing in line, begging and pleading to find MORE to do on their cell phones.
They are texting phenoms. They can type on their cells, even without QWERTY boards, almost as fast as I can on my Descktop keyboard.
The internet on a cell phone is NOTHING to them but TOTALLY NATURAL.
There's no need to convince them... just let them know where to go.
And they're there.
Are you?
GoPC
But it occured to me....
It's not just Telcos... it's the manufacturers, the networks, the content providers, the advertisers... They consider the Portable marketing its own International TLD... it's own "world".
Cell Phones outnumber Desktops over 4 to 1. Cellular Networks already HAVE their own "internet" built. Verizon, for instance, has been operating an Intranet for quite some time now and explains why they are the one major network player against .mobi (now, their competition).
As for needing it... Take the ext. out of the discussion... there NEEDS to be a standardization for Portables. Some way to ensure that a website will work on them.
While the Internet Marketing World seeks to find bigger, brighter, fancier ways to deliver content and presentation rich website environments, the Portables are unable to process these advancements. Businesses that spend huge amounts of money for Java Scripting, PHP, ASP, Flash and other website enhancemens are unaware that their websites will simply be ignored by the 400% MORE portable Internet users.
As a Business, now that it's done (whether I like it or not) I am now in a position to either change mywebsite to be compatible with a cell standard (reverse design evolution), pray and hope that someone comes out with a script that will automatically deliver one website for desktops versus another for Mobiles, set up a Mobile Page on my cell and redisign my home page to give users/visitors and option that actually WORKS on a Mobile... or....
Simply buy a .mobi and redirect it to a page on my current website that is compliant with Mobiles.
For $15 bucks... I'll to that. And the Huge Corporations behind the .mobi movement will spend the money and take the stress in educating the mass markets in expecting to find my website there at .mobi waiting for my customers.
It is not WE they need to convice to use .mobi, to use it as a standard, to realize that when you see .mobi attached to a domain, that it virtually guarentees that it will wortk quickly, effieciently and perfectly on one's mobile.... not we....
It's the Billions of Cell Phone Users that are the NEXT generation of Mobile Internet Users.
Sheep, lemmings, sponges.... call them what you will but check out the local high school, Taco Bell on a Saturday or the line at the movie theater on a Friday Night...You'll see them by the thousands... Early Adopters of technology standing in line, begging and pleading to find MORE to do on their cell phones.
They are texting phenoms. They can type on their cells, even without QWERTY boards, almost as fast as I can on my Descktop keyboard.
The internet on a cell phone is NOTHING to them but TOTALLY NATURAL.
There's no need to convince them... just let them know where to go.
And they're there.
Are you?
GoPC