On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Andrea Hoffmann wrote:
> I think in that sense it's meant when people say chtml is
> proprietary (although they mean i-mode and not the markup
> language itself).
Well IMO if they mean i-mode is proprietary they should say
"i-mode is proprietary" and not "chtml is proprietary". These
are two quite different things. Confusing IT terms is a
bad habit :)
To continue on this. I-mode is registered trademark of
NTT DoCoMo so they control using that name. Still I don't believe
they can't restrict other carriers to open services which carry
chtml pages to mobile handsets. Atleast if they are not called
"i-mode".
> Is the network/gateway structure of i-mode open and usable by
> everybody?
I can allready access (unofficial) i-mode pages with any
handset with gsm data and (c)html capable browser. I don't
see anything special in that.
What is special is their i-mode intranet / official i-mode
sites and I believe NTT DoCoMo has pretty good control over
them. However I dont see any restrictions why another carrier
or any other company could not launch a similar servicer but
just with some other name than i-mode.
--
Mika Tuupola http://www.appelsiini.net/~tuupola/
Received on Sat Jul 8 22:56:17 2000