On 29 Mar 2004, at 17:30, Curt Sampson wrote:
> What you don't seem to realize, Ken, is that, at least between about
> 1995
> and something approaching the present, business success was all about
> speed. The folks who got something half-assed out there before someone
> else got something good out there were the winners. That may offend
> your
> sense of technical aesthetics, but that's reality.
Vodafone Live launched after I-mode and the portals of the other UK
operators, yet is the clear winner now. First doesn't necessarily mean
best. "first-mover advantage" is practically a cliche of the dot-com
years... which doesn't mean it's a priori a bad thing, of course - but
neither is it necessarily a good thing.
> folks produce. I've seen way, way too many people design for what they
> think the situation will be five years in the future, only to discover
> that everything's changed three years later, and a lot of their design
> criteria are now completely inapplicable. I think that the whole
> WAP/WML
> thing is a perfect example of that. Why on earth do you need WAP when
> you've got a low-latency 384 Kbps link?)
Is it a question of needing it? I mean, nowadays the fact is that WAP
is what's out there and supported in handsets. However much that might
offend your technical sensibilities, it's a fact; developers of mobile
services need to recognise that (or sit around waiting for something
better to come along - not really an option if you believe that getting
something out of the door before your competitors is what counts).
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Received on Mon Mar 29 22:08:18 2004