Media: Yahoo looks at Future of Wireless Internet in US

"Wireless Web Sites Getting Useful, Not There Yet" by Ben Berkowitz is an overview of where wireless internet is going in the US. The piece looks at the Catch 22 of production: you need demand to stimulate cautious manufacturers, but only a good product on the streets will create demand.

It touches on usability, citing Jakob Nielsen's opinion of the wireless market:

'Nielsen said two things are necessary before wireless catches on as a significant business platform - advances in the design of the hardware and advances in content.'

He is quoted as saying that, as yet, wireless doesn't work for anything where you have a substantial amount of information, though the hardware advances are coming now. The only place he claimed to be pessimistic is purely on the quality of the initial services, predicting that in the first year: 'it's going to be misery, it's going to be clunky'.

Associated Link: Yahoo: Wireless Web Sites Getting Useful, Not There Yet

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