Frightening step backwards into the dark-er age. How can we
"mobilize" [sic] resistance or counter movement to open up
the M-web?
Dan
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From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of calvin
lash
Sent: Friday, April 14, 2000 6:59 AM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) M-Commerce
Thomas O'Dowd forwarded:
> > M-commerce alliance formed
<SNIP>
> > The new mobile phone e-commerce standard would not be
restricted to the GSM
> > mobile phone market, which is the de facto standard in
Europe and parts of Asia,
> > but would apply to other markets such as the CDMA phones
which are gaining
> > popularity in the US.
CDMA, of course, is the target standard for Japan and WCDMA
is just
around the corner---much to Europe's chagrin.
<SNIP>
> > To build the new e-commerce standard the three phone
manufacturers will be
> > using technology they jointly developed for WAP, which
has become the de facto
> > standard protocol for mobile web-pages.
Like it or not, iMode (a CHTML variant) has the market share
in Japan.
As long as DoCoMo keeps it's competitive edge, WAP will
continue to be
marginalized here. Have I got it wrong, but isn't the
greater concern
DoCoMo's control over iMode portal?
Fortress like m-portals that don't allow access from outside
KEITAI of
competing systems/companies are a step backward to the bad
old days of
MPT monopolies.
And not to single out DoCoMo......the word on the street in
the Bit
Valley (Shibuya-Ebisu) is that the normally forward-thinking
Nokia has
bought the TokyoQ <http:www.tokyoq.com>. From what I hear,
Nokia plans
to post all TokyoQ's astute/quirky content on it's own
m-site that will
be accessible via a Nokia KEITAI only. Sheesh. Somebody has
been smoking
too much lutfisk again.
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(apologies to the Family of Man)
Received on Sat Apr 15 17:39:48 2000