> Seems silly, and more effort to use your phone to buy a coke.
Today I bought some soda. Here's how it went, and it was pretty typical.
(1) I reached into my back pocket. The wallet snagged a little, as it often
does when it's fat with coins.
(2) I fished out some coins, what I thought was the right amount, and put
them in, fumbling slightly, but eventually getting them all in. Luckily, I
had enough coins (but then, having as many as I did, the wallet snagged.)
(3) One of the coins clattered through into the change slot. Damn, a fiver.
Instead of 10 yen. I always do that. FIVE YENS COINS DON'T WORK IN VENDING
MACHINES HERE! To think that my love affair with Japan started when I was
9, when our babysitter came back from the Land of the Rising Sun and gave me
this amazing brown coin with a hole in it. By design!
Stupidly, I had already shoved my wallet back into my back pocket, in an
even more jammed position.
(4) I took my wallet out again, replaced the 5 yen coin, and fished out a 10
yen coin. Then....
(5) I dropped the 10 yen coin.
(6) I leaned over to pick it up, and....
(7) My keitai fell out of my shirt-pocket, plus some meishi.
(8) I picked up everything, cursing, put the shirtpocket items back in.
(9) I put the last 10 yen into the vending machine, and, finally....
(10) pushed the button.
...and only then noticed the "urikire" light. Sold out.
What I am proposing for how cMode might end up is more like this:
(1) take your keitai out of your shirt pocket
(2) point it at the desired item
(3) push one button on the keitai.
And get payment put on the mobile-provider bill.
(Sold out? I don't know, maybe klaxons go off and you get showered with
confetti.)
Anyway:
I fail to see how my second scenario could ever, even with fumbling of the
keitai, be as inconvenient as my first scenario, even if scenario #1 were
smoothed out to the extent possible.
Next time I'll spell out what I mean in more detail. After I've filed the
One Click patent, that is.
-michael turner
leap@gol.com
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Received on Tue Sep 11 15:29:12 2001