The iPhone has proven that touch-screen with multi-touch works great on mobile. The iPhone has also proven that true One Web or “the web as-is” (i.e. without transformation) is possible — effectively showing how dotMobi could become irrelevant. Maybe.

To be successful, iPhone relies on zooming, touch-screen with multi-touch, and, fingers! Yes, fingers. (Is the iPhone giving dotMobi the finger?) Fingers/touch makes a difference. Comparing the zooming experience in Opera Mini, which shows how client-side transformation is possible and how it works well, but when compared to the iPhone with multi-touch you quickly realize how great touch-screen with “advanced finger-support” is for usability.

In any case, those requirements is also why content transformation, and dotMobi, are here to stay; while multi-touch will be something found on advanced handsets, millions of connected handsets will still be less-sophisticated, with a small screen resolution, no touch-screen, and so on, and yet those will be handsets that we need to address and deliver content to.

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