Hi Alexandr,
I guess I haven't had the experience of actually trying to make money
off either BREW or J2ME, but I thought that Docomo, JPhone and KDDI all
had similar business models. In that as long as you get signed up as an
official site with one of the above, then the phone company handles all
the billing etc.
Clearly the Japanese Phone companies demand a lot from their official
sites, but are you telling me that I'd really have to do no more than
write an application for Qualcomm and then just wait for the royalty
checks to come in? If this is so, wouldn't I be correct in assuming
that Qualcomm will take a much bigger proportion of the pie?
Are there more details of this Qualcomm BREW business model somewhere?
I mean the specifics of this deal, whereby Qualcomm will handle sales,
online shops etc. for me.
CHEERS> SAM
Alexandr Koloskov wrote:
>Hi, Sam.
>
> BREW, while being inefficient in many other ways, has an
>excellent business model since they allow clear path to market for
>developers. If you can write a really good application and pass all
>tests, then Qualcomm (and their partners like Verizon) takes all boring
>things ;) like sales, collecting money, creating online shops in their
>hands. You just receive money for your application. In J2ME world,
>you're free to put your application on any website, but you should spend
>a lot of efforts to make people buy it. Also, there's almost no
>provisioning system, so you can't make such payment models like trial or
>subscription, which are most efficient from both developer and user
>point of view.
>
Received on Sun Jul 14 06:44:01 2002