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

Hi, Sam.

	Well, I agree that companies you've mentioned has a good
business model comparable with Qualcomm's. But this affects only
Japanese market. In fact, there aren't any similar precedents in Europe
or in US. That's why Java has some advance in Japan, but stagnates in
all other countries. 
	And, of course, dealing with Qualcomm isn't easy process. It's
not fast and it's expensive. So, if you're small company or individual
you'll see a lot of problems. But, anyway, this is defined process with
well-known inputs and well-known steps. You should write good app, which
will stand against tests, and carrier should agree to put your app to
their mobile shop. But this is predictable process, so you can create
your business using this predictions. 

--
Alexandr Koloskov
Director of Development, Reaxion Corp.
 
E-Mail:  alexk@reaxion.com
WWW:   www.reaxion.com 

> -----Original Message-----
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> bounce@appelsiini.net] On Behalf Of Sam Joseph
> Sent: Sunday, July 14, 2002 7:43 AM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> 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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