Hey All
I'm thinking about the future of mobile phone businesses and content
providers, and I've some purely speculative questions that I would like to
put to the knowledgeable subscribers to this list:
What are your projections for when content delivery standards for mobile
phones will be standard enough that one could make a web site for phones and
have it available to the whole world - just as one can do now with the
"standard" web on computers?
Does that exist in a small way now? I only have an I-mode phone, so I'm not
sure if a J-Sky Net or EzWeb phone will be able to see a WAP based site from
Finland. I know you can make an I-mode site anywhere in the world, and
I-mode phones anywhere will be able to see it, but that's kind of an
academic point since currently I-mode phones are only available in Japan
(and soon Korea?).
Does anyone have any predictions for what future billing might look like?
Let's say I have some kind of an XML based site, and so you can see if from
your phone, your computer, your webTV, whatever. It has some services that
you want to bill for. In what way will future businesses be able to charge
for their content so that people from any browser/platform will be billed
uniformly? Will such a thing happen by 2003? 2005? Later?
Hmmm.. it's late, and I think my mind is going off into odd directions.
Hopefully these issues are of interest to the others on this list, and we
can get a little discussion going on them. Please look into your individual
crystal balls and share with us what you see.
Dave
Received on Thu Jul 20 17:43:35 2000