OMA (open mobile alliance) and FOMA are not related. Further, the key terms
in Jeff Brunson's quotes of my book are "which assumes no future changes in
mobile Internet." it is only in the particular section of chapter 10 that I
make this assumption. Most of the book is actually about the technical
changes that are bringing about many forms fof platform changes for example
in the delivery of content and applications. just as in the PC internet, it
is likely that most of the money will be made by firms that supply these
platforms (just look at oracle and its recent acquisition attempts).
cheers,
jeff funk
At 14:59 04/02/13 +0900, you wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Feb 2004, Jeff B wrote:
>
> > Especially interesting is Jeff's view (which assumes no future changes in
> > mobile internet) that the current battle for a "platform" iis among imode,
> > VOD LIve, with a very outside chance for OMA.
>
>If the "platform battle" is related to the number of users, since Docomo
>is going eventually to move the vast majority, if not all, of its
>customers to Foma, this would seem to mean that Docomo's market share is
>expected to shrink to insignificance. This I find highly unlikely.
>
>I think you're going to see a lot more Foma takeup (orders of magnitude
>more) now that Docomo is coming out with decent handsets (the 900
>series). Foma's biggest problem has been that the handsets aren't nearly
>as good as the PCS handsets. Even techno-geeks like me who would use
>Foma just for the fun of it are still in PCS because of the handset
>issue.
>
>cjs
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