Michael,
No offense. I think this is an interesting concept but will it work with the
Japanese culture? When Japanese go out during the night with their peers or
group don't they pre-plan where they want to go and would even wait until a
table opens up despite the wait and the large crowd. To them the crowd and
the noisiness of the place is an attraction and it might even be worth
waiting for. Japanese aren't just going to abandon their plans to go to
another place that they aren't familiar with. They are willing to wait it
out until a table opens in my opinion.
I agree though that being able to find seats and even look up the wait time
for these seats to be available might prove to be invaluable.
Once again though everything I've stated above is just opinion and based on
experience. Nothing else.
Virgil
> some places are indeed always very popular,
> and some are always quite empty....
> but still there are many places stay in between.
> so knowing if there are available seats in there places is still valuable.
> However, comparing to just making a phone call, you need to provide more
> value through i-mode rather than only info of availability...
>
> Michael Lee
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Virgil Vergara [mailto:virgil@hawaii.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, August 07, 2001 10:11 AM
> To: keitai l appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Real-time Party/Club Information Application
>
>
> Wouldn't a telephone call to your friendly neighborhood izakaya would do the
> trick? I mean if you wanted to know how crowded a place was wouldn't it be
> good just to call?
>
> Also, and forgive me if I'm wrong, if a place is popular, wouldn't it always
> be popular? If its not popular at all, wouldn't the Japanese just avoid it
> and go to the popular places? Just a thought.
>
> Virgil
>
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Received on Wed Aug 8 09:03:27 2001