Finding the right expressions - mobile vs. desktop
I am constantly trying to improve the way I communicate thoughts and concepts I have, trying to have an economy of words, yet very descriptive expressions. Today, I was reading a narrative of the future of the mobile lifestyle and, sparked by a particular sentence, got my head around an issue I've been grappling with.
What bothers me is that when we talk about the mobile Web or mobile Internet it suggests a different Web than the fixed, broadband Web. My struggle comes in being able, on the one hand, to say that there is but One Web, there is only One Internet, and, on the other, discuss the Web one lives when mobile.
Well, starting today, I will call the distinction the 'desktop Web experience', or 'desktop Web', and the 'mobile Web experience', or, as before, 'mobile Web'. It harks back to the foreground-background concepts defining experiencing the Web from the PC (now to referred to as 'desktop') and the mobile (which, due to my position, I might be 'forced' to call 'multimedia computer', or 'MC' - heh).
I know these are boring semantics, but I just don't want to confusion to lie on the word 'Web', but on the place of the experience. Nobody (anymore) wants to just convert and shrink the desktop Web experience onto mobile devices. There is indeed a whole different paradigm for the mobile Web experience, an experience that is defined by the Mobile Lifestyle.