At 07:23 PM 7/10/03 +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
>On Wed, 9 Jul 2003, Juergen Specht wrote:
>Unfortunately, my keitai e-mail is almost 100% non-geek. *Sigh*.
>
>I'm suspecting that this is designed to try to force people towards
>Docomo. I do in fact have a friend who switched off Docomo, and then
>went back again solely because she couldn't exchange e-moji with all of
>her Docomo-using friends.
Curt,
That is a great observation. I've felt the same way although I'm not sure if
Docomo if consciously using the "embrace and extend" and "lost formatting"
strategy" used so effectively by Microsoft to lock people in and/or get them
to upgrade to the next version of Word/Excel/Access/IE, etc. but this could
be a very effective strategy for them.
-- James
Received on Thu Jul 10 19:05:19 2003