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Compared to the web, mobile development is hell and the results suck. The display sucks, the input sucks, the bandwidth sucks, navigation sucks, monetization sucks, development and testing takes more time and costs more, usability sucks, effective marketing of services is virtually impossible, and you cant even start thinking about anything until you have established a carrier relationship which usually results in a committee-driven product which no one wants. I'm glad 7 years later that I left for those reasons and absolutely nothing has changed.

Blackberry has it right - just do your best to be a tiny PC client, with a regular email client, keyboard, etc, and stop trying to make a regular phone factor usable and rely on special mobile content. Yahoo! is just 'doing what it can' for the last 7 years, which, since they dont control carriers or handset makers, means continuing to bash their heads against the wall shoehorning mediocre products onto devices which will never do them justice.]]>Jan 8th 2007 8:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/Marco: We integrated Yahoo maps with mobile phone software to make make "maps on the Go!"]]>Jan 8th 2007 4:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/
"There are no plans to support Yahoo Go 2.0 for your PDA"

Looks like only Blackberry and RAZR users get the mobile experience.]]>Jan 8th 2007 8:40PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/Jan 8th 2007 8:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/Jan 8th 2007 9:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/Jan 8th 2007 9:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/http://www.engadget.com/2007/01/08/live-at-the-yahoo-press-conference/
http://blog.sciam.com/index.php?title=blogging_the_ces_why_is_everyone_using_t&more=1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1

...and I've got to say, I kind of feel like the angry ex-yahoo employee might be right. The guy giving the presentation admitted that folks simply don't use their phones for this kind of content for a reason - and then he claimed that it was that this content hadn't been presented all that well / accessibly before.]]>Jan 9th 2007 12:40AM