The industry should retrench and figure out what it needs to do to survive. I'm convinced that the hand-held or pocket computer is the right idea. The elegant simplicity of plain HTML is being shoved aside in favor of the increasingly complex XML scene. Already the XML scene is deteriorating into a mess. The Desktop, Dumbed Down Traditionally, the growth of practical applications for desktop computers has closely paralleled the growth in gaming applications.
Nobody says that anymore.
The paucity of genuinely new ideas for WAP technology should frighten the WAP phone makers. 2000 Spam 2000 Spam is worse than ever. It's very annoying. The recent collapse of the stock market and the sudden fall of tech stocks into the abyss of stagnation have alarmed a lot of observers. Despite increased popularity and market-share increases, the buzz seems to have disappeared from the computer scene.