<DEVILS><ADVOCATE>But Japanese consumers WANT all this stuff. I know it is a
nightmare to create a usable user interface when you have a million
features, and not one should ever be removed once there, and that we have NO
good research about which of the existing features people actually use, so
as to be able to prioritise where they are in the interface, but Japanese
consumers WANT this stuff. They WANT new features every six months. They
WANT the best technology, the coolest looking phone. </AVOCATE>Don't mess
with the WAnt: Unless new features are released every 6 months, the Japanese
economy would come to a grinding halt and things just wouldn't work. Your
shop assistant will eventually figure out all of the features of the D902i
when she buys the D909i in five years, so what is the problem?</DEVILS>
On 12/1/06, Curt Sampson <cjs@cynic.net> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006, Nik Frengle wrote:
>
> > We got our butt's kicked out trying to induce an insane handset-driven
> > market to focus more on services than handsets, and I wouldn't
> > anticipate anyone else stupid enough to make the same mistake soon.
>
> I just bought a D903i the other day, and it was a pretty interesting
> experience. The rep. at the Docomo shop even owned one of these herself,
> and had to seek help on changing the default menu theme; it took two
> docomo folks about 10 minutes all told to figure out how to do this. I
> asked a few questions, and it turns out that, though this person even
> owned a 902 for quite some time before a 903, she'd never made a video
> call, never used PTT, and in general had not used hardly any features
> beyond voice calls, e-mail and web browsing.
>
> cjs
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Received on Fri Dec 1 11:34:24 2006