Re: Google payment plans

On 2014-04-10 13:02, Joseph Potvin wrote:
> ...says Anders from his Gmail account.
> 
> And I eat only vegetarian animals.
> 
> :-)

I'm merely suggesting that to succeed you need to combine Manu's admirable
enthusiasm and energy with a shrewd strategy.

My own take on the strategy thing is skipping North America and the EU since their
payment systems are extremely dated while the vendors have planted a virtual mine-field
of patents to make it difficult for possible "newcomers".  However, these patents are
not respected in China, South America, Africa, etc. giving you a lot of advantages,
not to mention that the market is 5-10 times bigger in terms of users.

As you probably agree on, such considerations are _way_ outside what a traditional
SDO like W3C could do.

Anders

> 
> joseph
> 
> On Thu, Apr 10, 2014 at 6:54 AM, Anders Rundgren
> <anders.rundgren.net@gmail.com> wrote:
>> http://www.cnet.com/news/google-exec-reiterates-commitment-to-mobile-payments
>>
>> The W3C payment initiative has the two worst imaginable competitors: Status Quo and Google.
>> To fight this, requires more than just technology; it requires a *strategy*.
>>
>> Anders
>>
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> 
>

Received on Thursday, 10 April 2014 11:29:30 UTC