How long will WAP last?

This question dates back to 2000. For many people, WAP was dead many years ago. For some others it never died. In different incarnations, WAP has been alive all these years and has kept on growing. While it hasn’t been the massive success some had expected or wished it to be, the fact that it still is there has to be reconed with.

The word “WAP sites” was soon banned by many sales and marketing guys, and was renamed to “micro-sites” or “wireless sites”, however this didn’t stick. To this day, people still call it WAP.

Interest in “the mobile web” hasn’t stopped growing, but as can be read in this FAQ, this essentially means “WAP is still growing”. Currently WAP has been slowly evolving into ‘WAP 2.0’ and on, and has been re-branded XHTML-MP, which, for its new set of parameters, is a well-suited name.