hello everyone,
The criticism of Japan's mobile Internet such as that shown below is such
as good example of how humans will quickly stop trying to understand a
phenomena and start criticizing it out of frustration. We have seen many
messages like this on the keitai net and I have had similar things said to
me many times overseas at conferences. The success of the Japanese mobile
Internet is not due to some crazy quirk of the Japanese people, economy, or
firms, it is due to the specific strategies that NTT DoCoMo and later KDDI
and J-phone adopted. their creation of of a micro-payment system, a
relatively open portal, and a wide variety of contents including
entertainment contents and heavy subsidization of phones are the reason for
their success. countries that are using the same strategies such as Korea
are seeing similar trends.
Jeff Funk
At 11:11 01/11/20 +0900, you wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Nov 2001, Juergen Specht wrote:
>
> > final truth about Japan" thread? One list member provides his
> > own list for this kind of talk.
> Links, please?
>
> > > And I don't know about you, but if I have to send more
> > > than 10 words by email, it does not matter what I am doing
> > > or where I am, it can wait until I can access a normal
> > > computer, or it isn't important enough to bother with.
>
> > We really had this quite often, but can you maybe imagine
> > that not everybody actually *owns* a computer and uses
> > solely a Keitai for sending and receiving emails?
> This is what I don't understand, you buy a \40,000 phone + pay \5000 a
> month for service (or more), and you can't justify purchasing a \50,000
> PC? Oh, wait...
>
> > I hope that no journalist reads your post and creates a new
> > headline "DoCoMo Bankrupt! i-mode never had more than 500
> > users!" :)
> heh, no comment
>
> tim
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Received on Tue Nov 20 05:07:15 2001