- From: Gerhard Fasol <fasol@eurotechnology.com>
- Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2004 18:06:45 +0900
- To: Kai Hendry <hendry@cs.helsinki.fi>, www-mobile@w3.org
> If you don't care about this, why are you on a W3C list? Do you know the old Greek story about killing the messenger who brings some news? All I did was to report the market situation in Japan: i-mode is part of the economic, social and political infrastructure of Japan, and close to US$ 10 billion or more is moved in mcommerce through i-mode with more than 3000 companies participating. 40 million people in Japan use i-mode on average 10 times per day, and pay about US$ 1 billion in fees/month for i-mode data services alone, not counting the mcommerce. Reporting this statistical fact does not mean, that I think this is good or bad - fact is fact whether you like it or not. i-Mode may or maynot succeed outside Japan, but inside Japan it is a very strong consumer brand similar to Coca-Cola or Nokia in Europe. Gerhard http://www.eurotechnology.com Kai Hendry wrote: > On Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:40:33PM +0900, Gerhard Fasol wrote: > >>Kai Hendry wrote: >> >>>I-mode stuff in general is proprietary and closed, and best avoided. >> >>i-Mode has about 40 million paying subscribers and there is >>several billion dollars business moved through i-mode. >>While you might prefer to avoid i-mode, there are about >>3000 businesses who do not avoid i-mode. > > > I'll put it this way then. I want a universal web. I don't want the web > and then I-mode. > > If you don't care about this, why are you on a W3C list? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K. fasol@eurotechnology.com http://www.eurotechnology.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Find us in "IBM developerWorks" and in "Chemical & Engineering News": http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/wireless/library/wi-elite8.html http://pubs.acs.org/cen/topstory/8049/8049bus1.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------
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