Concurentii nostri de la Fon pornesc in cautarea retetei secrete pentru serviciile WiFi. Intr-un articol recent de pe blogul sau, CEO-ul companiei madrilene pomeneste despre o noua aplicatie ce va simplifica conectivitatea la o retea de tip hotspot.
Citind, mi-am adus aminte de prezentarea studiilor facute de c*free si aplicatiile pe care le dezvoltam in directia mentionata de Fon. Ma bucura promisiunea pe care o lanseaza ei. Orice contributie la uniformitatea si usabilitatea serviciilor de tip hotspot este binevenita!
Ma mai bucura faptul ca misiunea noasta, a celor de la c*free, i-a inspirat pe dinamicii spanioli. Mai jos voi reproduce citate din prezentarile c*free si din blog-ul lui Martin Varsavsky. O idee atat de buna nu i-a lasat indiferenti:

"Users like you and me have been complaining about low USABILITY and steep PRICING. Would you waste time buying scratch cards, entering dozens of digits,passwords, usernames, passwords, IPs, Gateways, Proxies, ?..
ANY study out there tells us that users want connectivity at a price they can justify. And usability close to the streamelined "three-click rule". [...]
So, free is not enough?
It's got to be easy too.
(c*free is about) guaranteed identical user experience in every hotspot."
(TP'06&FMC'06 - c*free)

"Most of us internet users love WiFi (WLAN) but we are tired of going thru the whole list of Open, WPE, WPA, WPA-PSK, Semi-Open, networks with our PDAs or notebooks every time we want to log on. we have started addressing exactly this issue.

What is our solution?

We have developed a Smart Client that runs on wifi devices. This client uses previously stored Fon credentials (username and password) for auto-login to any fonera (fon hotspot). This Smart Client is being ported now to several Operating Systems and more and more Wireless gandgets will be now shipped with this Fon Ready Smart Client. [...] At Fon we are determined to improve the two bad things about wifi, lack of ubiquity and log on difficulties."
(Martin Varsavsky Blog - Fon)