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Nick May wrote:
I don't give a hoot about video. But I do care about having decent cpu
power, low energy use, good screens and output devices and high bandwidth
connections, because there will be so many other things one can do with them
that we have not currently thought of doing from afar. Remember: 3G keitai
are the first step to a "portable digital hub". It is true that services
sell technology, BUT the existence of certain tech allows services
uncontemplated when the tech was developed.
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I agree wholeheartedly. When Sony launched their first PlayStation so many
entertainment companies, who ought to have known better, spent a lot of
money on licenses and technology to develop interactive movies - a strange
idea but obvious if you're a narrow "Games + MPEG quality = Interactive
movies" thinker. Technology is the liberator and humans are an imaginitave
bunch - as long as the corporations don't try to package the services too
tightly around their expected service offering then real people will use it
as befits their real lives - not according to the business modeling and hype
of the marketeers. Post card messages and imaginative animations yes -
video as a parallel to every phone call, doubt it mate.
Ian Morrison
CEO, Synapsx Pte Ltd
+65 98238824
Mobile Marketing & Entertainment
-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Nick May
Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2001 8:14 PM
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: i-motion Mpeg3
keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
>I like you, don't get me wrong.
>I don't want to challenge you. Your plugs are too funny.
I was pondering 1) the usefulness of video phones and 2) what exactly
whoever is currently on the end of the "portals@onebox.com" could do to
meaningfully challenge and duel with someone else on a mailing list....
And then it came to me: video itself is not terribly useful - but the
screens and cpu it would require should be more than enough to play quake.
Picture the scene: phone rings, Jeurgen disrobes in preparation for
answering what he hopes he will be an "uplifting" call - (fortunately he
is in Roppongi at the time, so no-one notices) Instead of a pretty female
face, a ghastly avatar appears on his vid-phone: "Ready to fight,
little Noop?" a rasping voice demands in polyphonic stereo from deepest
Texas. "Anytime, port-hole" replies our German Knight.
4 hours and 450,000yen of bandwidth charges later, Jeurgen emerges
victorious, (anyone who can type a sentence of Chinese characters through
a phone numeric keyboard can certainly handle something as trivial as
quake) and the "eggy" is pronounced an "honorary keitai".
Dial a duel: just a little fantasy of course, but with a serious point.
The tech development for one set of services (that possibly no-one will
want) will often allow another set of services (that no-one has currently
thought of) in by the back door.
[ Did you check the archives? http://www.appelsiini.net/keitai-l/ ]
Received on Sat Jul 21 07:50:16 2001