I found one comment particularly interesting: it said, "...and the whole
thing locked you into a walled garden of extremely limited appeal."
One of the brilliant points about i-mode, I feel, was that though it's
harder (in terms of billing and session management) to be a non-offical
site, a non-official site is darn easy to set up. Hackers alone,
working for fun, should have set up a fair amount of content had it
been encouraged. I suspect that this whole failure might be as much to
do with the telcos persuing their usual, "large part of a small market"
strategy, and actively working against market growth.
cjs
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Received on Mon Jul 23 22:10:29 2007