William:
I remember a DoCoMo study, that people on average are only prepared
to wait about 7 seconds for a response (i.e. the desired information
page to come up on the screen) on the mobile internet.
i-mode reponse is typically under good conditions 2-3 seconds from
one page to the next. So: if you bookmark for example the weather
page of your prefered beach or the snow depth on your prefered
ski slope, you have the answer 2-3 seconds after your kids ask you,
not 1-2 minutes later.
That's a big, maybe the biggest factor why i-mode is so successful
in Japan. If the response time would have been 1-2 minutes at the
introduction of i-mode (as I think it was on WAP in Europe - correct
me if I am wrong) I think i-mode would have flopped in Japan.
Gerhard
William Volk wrote:
> My fav. PC Game, Battlefield 1942 has a startup time (to get into a
> multiplayer game) that exceeds the time most people even have to play a
> mobile handset game (2 minutes or so). Counterstrike is worse by a
> factor of 3 to 5.
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