Carlos, Glad you have the similar opinions on WURFL and some of the people behind it (as you're not bothering to look him up[?]) Their code is unlikely to be "scalable" or "optimized" now either, except they hope to rip-off people who are naive or rich enough to afford 20-50k(!) $ per year annual data providing fees now with the same non-optimized services.
Those in the community they also tried to rip-off or at least disappointed are looking for alternatives, which is a main reason we are trying to get more scalable, yet affordable solutions than their unreasonable offerings for a broader community. If you plan to educate MobFox about alternatives like DeviceMap or OpenDDR, feel free to do so. They might also appreciate, many just lack proper knowledge about better alternatives. Regards, Werner On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:28 PM, Carlos D'Agostino < [email protected]> wrote: > Heh, Werner I can see you have strong opinions on WURFL and the "italian > dumbass" (I think his name was Luca Passiani -- I'm not even bothering to > look it up). I don't know the status of WURLF currently, but back in 2010 > (I think) their code was certainly not "scalable", or "optimized", or > <insert web jargon to produce marketing orgasms>. The data was quite > extensive however, and for people operating in markets that don't carry > modern handsets (like South Africa and Kenya.. and those "people" include > yours truly), it was pretty neat. > > I've notified my marketeers about MobFox, perhaps we do some business with > them, and put that article to the test :) > > Regards, > > > On Fri, May 3, 2013 at 1:16 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The only aspect that is indeed somewhat interesting is MobFox also has >> some REST API: >> http://dev.mobfox.com/index.php?title=Main_Page#MobFox_REST_API >> >> Beside other legacy stuff like WAP or WURFL[?] >> > > > > -- > Carlos D'Agostino. >
