The bigger issue is: the Internet is fine and open and all that, but if you
are interested in having a successful business, making people pay for the
free, open Internet is a model that has never worked.
I like the fact that the wireless web is a walled garden -- it's why i-mode
is successful and WAP services, so far, are not.
Blatant self-plug:
"Are Walled Gardens Such a Bad Thing?"
http://www.japaninc.net/feedback/letter/letter01.html#gardens
r e n
Juergen Specht wrote:
> Mika Tuupola wrote:
> > "i-mode is a walled garden and not truly mobile Internet, which
> > restricts the development of creative new services.
> They should wait for us to start Nooper.com and he will really
> get a big red head. One more guy who will find a permanent
> place in my collection of (in)famous quotes :)
>
> Wap is also designed like the model Internet, it's great for totally
> free services, but these are the services you can use only
> for a limited time, because we all know that free services
> don't last very long...
>
> Seems that I have my cynic day today,
>
> Juergen
> --
> Coming next: - http://www.nooper.com - Noopadabbanoooooooh!
--
ascii: r e n f i e l d
octal: \162 \145 \156 \146 \151 \145 \154 \144
hex: \x72 \x65 \x6e \x66 \x69 \x65 \x6c \x64
morgan stanley dean witter japan
e-business technologies | engineering and strategy
-- Binary/unsupported file stripped by Listar --
-- Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
-- File: smime.p7s
-- Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Received on Wed Oct 18 04:30:07 2000