This I did not see coming. Not so much that the predominant platform that eBay Australia sees its mobile commerce through would be iOS; the iPhone and iPad’s market position make that pretty much inevitable. But WAP coming in just behind iOS? Did we skip back to 1998 and nobody told me? Update: It seems not; eBay’s just contacted me to clarify their mistake.
The world is in its 3G stage and moving towards 4G but there was a time when 2G, or second generation, handsets were all the rage. Back in the day, in the early days of 2000, this little black duck was carrying one of the coolest handsets on the planet – the Nokia 7110. It looked a lot like the phone Neo uses in The Matrix. Press a button and cover snapped down to reveal the keypad.
