Chat rooms are already one of the most popular uses of cell phones in Japan.
Wireless IM, allowing realtime text chatting, will be even bigger.
Stupidity is ignoring this trend.
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Kyle Barrow wrote:
> I was at an event last Friday where the head of AOL Japan showed off AIM for
> wireless devices. While I would expect this sort of nonsense from the US I
> would have thought the Japanese group should have known better.
>
> Now wireless IM has hit the popular press as well:
>
> http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/comment/0,5859,2653139,00.html
>
> Am I alone in thinking this is stupid? If not I shall rush out and patent
> Instant Morse Code and Instant Tribal Drum as it is clear these people don't
> know that that little speaker and mike at each end of your wireless device
> allow you to TALK to someone and have never heard of voice over Internet
> technology.
>
> Glad to get that out of my system, I feel much better now.
>
> Kyle
>
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