Amazingly, there are now three versions of the web today.
There is the main version – displayed on computers and the like; the mobile version, for the Blackberrys and Nokias et all; and now, the third version, the iPhone version.
A version that is flash-free; a version that is undeniably going to integrate with the new SDK (software development kit) for the iPhone taking what are now “web apps” and giving them the ability to run them in a dedicated manner and using the web as a data source instead of for the whole experience.
Now that there is going to be Exchange integration and the like, there will be more and more people who are tied to it; and with the iPhone having an insanely high smart phone market share so fast, it’s now a consideration.
My ranking of the importance of these “webs” are:
1) Mainstream
2) iPhone Based Web
3) Mobile Web
You just don’t have the ability to do what you want to on traditional mobile web platforms; I am thinking that spending the resources to develop there might be folly, especially since it’s quite obvious that in a year or so the new standard is going to be putting the full version of pages on mobile devices.
