> > I suppose there is some kind of network effect that makes the
wall-garden
> > model less and less suitable for the long term...
>
> AOL is doing rather well ... and so is DoCoMo: as long as subscribers see
> a value in the walled-garden the flowers inside the walled garden will
blossom...
There was a good discussion of this on the list, not so long ago:
http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/archives/2000-10/0111.html
> In Tokyo there is Yoyogi-koen which is free for all to enter, next to it
is
> Meiji-Jingu-Gyoen, which costs about YEN 300 to enter,
>.....
> Both seem to survive well.
And are, more to the point, both run by the same authority. Not
competing models, necessarily; maybe mostly complementary?
-m
leap@gol.com
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Received on Wed Mar 21 16:46:51 2001