Arnold,
I totally agree with you.
To maintain a mobile site which delivers high-quality news many
times per day costs a lot of money. This money must come from
somewhere. Either from advertising, or from being part of a
larger business model etc.
As an example, while lots of news sites on the fixed line
internet are free, top quality sites like Financial Times,
BusinessWeek, WallstreetJournal, Economist etc all require
subscription payments for complete site access.
Also agree with you that for anything English in Japan the
main market is Japanese people learning English (in terms
of quantity this means mainly bilingual secretaries and
highschool teachers of English, and ambitious parents -
not high-flying executives, since that's a tiny market).
Gerhard
Arnold P. Siboro wrote:
> Gerhard, you seem to be saying free sites cannot deliver high quality
> contents. Free and high quality are not necessarily conflicting
> qualities.
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Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
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Received on Tue Dec 27 12:09:35 2005