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WAP is Dead, Long Live WAP

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the ideas-before-their-time dept.

antimatt writes "Everyone knows WAP is dead. It was dead on arrival. Right? Wrong. WAP use, at least in the UK, is up 42% in the last year. Are we seeing postmortem twitching, or a phoenix rising from the wireless ashes?" While the first incarnation was pretty rough, WAP is slowly growing into what people had hoped the first version would be. Now if only it just lost the stigma attached to it.

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  1. Everyone knows WAP is dead by stratjakt · · Score: 0, Redundant

    And the wikipedia link on the word WAP contains this:

    WAP has seen huge success in Japan

    Who cares about some device-specific protocol anyways? Does it really affect my life if people are using it or not?

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