(keitai-l) Re: Does Qualcomm's BREW Business Model work????

Hello DC  and the Ketai List


If you are apart of the Qualcomm BREW Developer
Alliance you can get a slimmed down version of the ARM
Compiler for only 1500 bucks.      

I have the full version of the ARM Developer suite so
it is not an issue for me.   

If any of you developers need me to compile code for
you; I would help you out.    



---Jay 



--- dc <dc@gamelet.com> wrote:
> 
> http://brew.qualcomm.com
> 
> once you go through their testing + certification
> process ($4k for each
> pass, sometimes three or four needed) they`ll put
> your app into the QC/brew
> catalog. You still need sales people in the
> carrier:s face to get them to
> select your app and provision it for their users.
> you also have to buy an
> arm compiler for some $6k to make real binary code.
> and the hardware devices
> vary greatly from the simulator.
> 
> QCs deal is stated as 80% rev goes to the CP. they
> were anticipating 10% to
> carrier (like imode) and 10% to QC but of course the
> carriers are after the
> whole 20% distrib fee.
> 
> then you wait for the carriers payment cycle, then
> add a month or two for
> QCs.
> 
> /dc
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Sam Joseph" <gaijin@yha.att.ne.jp>
> To: <keitai-l@appelsiini.net>
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 12:42 PM
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Does Qualcomm's BREW
> Business Model work????
> 
> 
> >
> > 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.
> > >
> >
> >
> >
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