Another angle on this: journalists are, on the whole, actually pretty
conservative in their adoption of new media, software, technologies, etc.
Ever heard of Xywrite? It's word processing software. It was introduced in
1982, spread into the journalist community in part because its author worked
for ATEX, a vendor of page-layout systems for newspapers, and many
journalists still swear by it. What was the big deal? Multiple windows!
On this issue in general, dated (1997) but still interesting:
http://www.columbia.edu/~jp35/lectures/lect_9.html
Michael Turner
www.idiom/com/~turner
leap@gol.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Andrea Hoffmann" <ah@anima.de>
To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2000 10:15 AM
Subject: (keitai-l) Foreign press at G8 rate i-mode a flop?
> Good morning,
>
> here is an interesting piece of information from Nikkei BP
> Biztech about the acceptance of i-mode among the G8 foreign
> press:
>
> Summit Special: Foreign press at G8 rate i-mode a flop?
> http://anima.editthispage.com/stories/storyReader$327
>
> Quote: "Virtually all the foreign press who did borrow the
> specially prepared i-mode phones used them only for free
> phone calls."
>
> Is that bad preparation (the press didn't know enough about
> the phones in advance) or will i-mode be a Japan-only success?
> Or are the journalists simply ignorant?
>
> TTL,
> Andrea
> --
> Andrea Hoffmann -- Editor-in-Chief -- hoffmann@westcyber.com
> Japan Mobile Information ---- http://anima.editthispage.com
>
>
Received on Tue Jul 25 11:36:05 2000