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Old 10-28-2008, 08:54 PM THREAD STARTER               #1 (permalink)
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Gonna offer this free to whoever posts the best reason that mobi is the future of mobile internet usage. This will end in 24 hours and I will choose the best post.

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Gonna offer this free to whoever posts the best reason that mobi is the future of mobile internet usage.
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So far I am dissappointed. Do mobi fans not want a dot com?
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My reason is simple.

In future there will be competition between Computers and Mobiles.

And a Law/Norm will be forced by Mobile Operators and Manufacturers that only .mobi sites will be displayed to make Mobile Internet Popular.
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I disagree that .mobi is the "future of mobile internet usage". I see it as a viable alternative to the other available options (m.site.com, site.com/m, etc) -- an alternative that is ultimately more memorable in my opinion. I see two choices for end users:

Choice 1:
m.site.com
mobile.site.com
site.com/m
site.com/mobile
wap.site.com
etc... you get the picture


OR


Choice 2:
.mobi


Once .mobi is finally instilled in the minds of consumers, I think that .mobi will be the more memorable choice. As we know, there is a good deal of discrepancy currently in the mobile internet as far as web addresses go; users are currently faced with over five choices, each which are commonly used. In a perfect world, companies would redirect all the above choices to their mobile site, but as demonstrated by the below examples, this just doesn't happen.

Best Buy
m.bestbuy.com - works
bestbuy.mobi - works
mobile.bestbuy.com - doesn't work
bestbuy.com/m - doesn't work
bestbuy.com/mobile - redirects to Best Buy's "Cell Phone" department
wap.bestbuy.com - doesn't work

NBA
m.nba.com - works
nba.mobi - works
mobile.nba.com - doesn't work
nba.com/m - doesn't work
nba.com/mobile - goes to the PC page about their mobile services, but does not display on a phone
wap.nba.com - works

Fandango
m.fandango.com - doesn't work
fandango.mobi - works
mobile.fandango.com - works
fandango.com/m - redirects to PC site
fandango.com/mobile - redirects to PC site
wap.fandango.com - works

Wachovia
m.wachovia.com - doesn't work
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wachovia.mobi - works
mobile.wachovia.com - doesn't work
wachovia.com/m - doesn't work
wachovia.com/mobile - works
wap.wachovia.com - doesn't work

BMW
m.bmw.com - doesn't work
bmw.mobi - works
mobile.bmw.com - doesn't work
bmw.com/m - unrelated page
bmw.com/mobile - doesn't work
wap.bmw.com - doesn't work

Fidelity
m.fidelity.com - doesn't work
fidelity.mobi - works
mobile.fidelity.com - doesn't work
fidelity.com/m - doesn't work
fidelity.com/mobile - doesn't work
wap.fidelity.com - doesn't work

Amtrak
m.amtrak.com - doesn't work
amtrak.mobi - works
mobile.amtrak.com - doesn't work
amtrak.com/m - doesn't work
amtrak.com/mobile - doesn't work
wap.amtrak.com - doesn't work


I would provide more examples, but I have one minute to post this on time to meet the deadline. I think my point is clear, though -- there is currently just too much discrepancy. A common choice would be very useful imho (although not absolutely necessary), and .mobi fills that void. Many companies won't see a need for .mobi, but that's fine (their loss ) But .mobi is, at least in my opinion, more memorable than the first set of choices, and hence, a better choice for advertising purposes. I don't know about you, but to me, those choices in the first category above all run together. If I see mobile.fandango.com being advertised somewhere, and a few hours later I try to remember what the URL is, I would probably not remember if it was mobile.fandango.com or m.fandango.com or wap.fandango.com or fandango.com/mobile or fandango.com/m. If I pick the wrong one, I may not get to the site at all. DotMobi stands out.
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I'd write more, but I'm out of time. I think you can see where I'm going with this --> .mobi is all about memorability, and will compliment the mobile web very nicely.


Oh, and one more thing: we can't forget about the whole mobile-specific site thing. Some sites are designed for mobiles, not PC's, and hence there is no need for a .com at all. DotMobi will work just fine, and is likely much easier to aquire than the .com (which is and always will be "king").




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