Saturday, March 24, 2007

Limitation of M-Commerce

Despite the fact that the use of M-Commerce is growing rapidly there are still limitation that causes limited use of M-Commerce:

  1. Bandwidth
    The limited bandwidth that can be support by mobile devices currently is very small which causes web developers to reduce the usage of rich data.

  2. Screens Size
    The screen size of a mobile device is very limited. This also limits the viewing capacity of the user.

  3. Less Powerful Processors
    Due to the slow processing speed web developer would have to use server side scripting which will bring more load to the servers.

  4. Cost of Wireless Connection
    As wireless connection of a mobile device to the internet is still a relatively new technology the cost of using such connection is also expensive as the technology is still under heavy development


Reference:

http://www.witiger.com/ecommerce/mcommerceintro.htm