On the plus side, such devices are becoming cheaper and the mobile web service is moving away from the “walled garden” approach taken by some service providers, who have limited what their customers can access.
In fact, in future we will see mobile-only web users, but only if future development work is centred around the user and not the technology, as it is now.
“Ultimately, the web will become an omnipresent service platform available on any device at any time,” said Daniel Appelquist, senior technology strategist at Vodafone. “In future all user experiences of this ‘service platform’ will differ, according to the individual users’ requirements.”
