Ubiquitous Technology
Anil de mello: "what we need is a new type of service : mobile ubiquity integration (mui)." True. If you look at all the tech we are using in our everyday life there’s a lot of unclaimed potential, primarily in interoperability, but thanks to vendor-lockin things don’t just work. I’m quite certain that the next ubiquity revolution shouldn’t be a hardware, but software revolution. We got some rock-solid hardware in the market; pcs, cellphones, pdas, printers, input devices, displays, cars, all sporting the ability to communicate with each other via personal, local and wide area networks like bluetooth, wlan, gsm or cables. But they aren’t integrated good enough. The question is how to achieve this. Open standards appear to be the right way to go. I can’t sync my cellphone with a linux system and i’m pretty sure i would be able to do that if nokia used open, publicly available standards for syncing (they do support syncml, but rather for business-oriented ota syncing). There’s also no good reason why i can’t use a bluetooth keyboard with my cellphone, for example for text messaging. Of course i could write my own drivers if i really wanted, but that’s not exactly a consumer friendly approach. The support of hp printers in nokias series60 devices is an important step in the right direction, but there’s still way to go.
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