Rumors of the "death" of WAP have, in the time-honored phrase, been
exaggerated. WAP isn't dead by any stretch of the imagination. In fact, it's
getting more and more alive every day.
Membership of the WAP Forum itself, for example, has grown in the last year
from 250 to over 600 members and the amount of content that's available to
people who use WAP-enabled devices, which in the final analysis is all that
matters, increased from only 25,000 pages at the beginning of the year 2000
to 8 million at the end. So it's perfectly clear that developers are out
there. Indeed there are very large numbers of them developing applications
for WAP. There are 10,000 applications listed on portal sites like
OracleMobile and CellMania.
At the WAP Forum we think that WAP continues to be... (more)