Timothy J Mckinnon wrote:
>
> your best start would be the www.nttdocomo.com site.
www.nttdocomo.com contains much useful information but essentially no
market data. Most real market data are researched by private companies
which charge for these data.
> iMode is by far the most popular application platform, followed by iAppli,
> then easyweb, jsky.
Hmmm... Timbo you are mixing up some things here. If you are talking about
imode-like mobile internet services there is
(1) imode
(2) EZweb
(3) Jsky,
(4) H''
(5) .i
In addition, there are many other mobile internet services in Japan,
e.g. for streaming music, PC & PDA mobile internet access etc.
I think the question however was for the popularity of JAVA applets.
The answer here is that there are 1000s, and it's a rapidly changing
market. Some very popular ones are games of course, train timetables,
wheather/alarm clocks, and many more. As I said, some of the popularity
data you can find free on the internet, but most serious marketing
data is researched by private companies which need to recover their
costs and make a profit. It's a mass market.
> (THe docomo phones have an inbuilt iMode access menu, but I just tried to
> access it with a normal browser and it would not load. I imagine the server
> is checking the browser type and refusing access to ie5. If you spoof the
> http header and insert a docomo phone type, it will probably return content
> to you and you could browse the application menu)
By definition you can never access the "inbuilt imode menu" which is
built into the handsets. The next level, DoCoMo's menu which resides on
DoCoMo's servers also you will normally not be able to access, since
DoCoMo knows easily whether access is through DoCoMo's radio link or from
someone in Australia. Again this has nothing to do with the popularity of
JAVA applis. See our imode-faq for some of this information:
http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq.html
Best regards,
Gerhard Fasol
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
Received on Tue Jun 4 06:28:58 2002