(keitai-l) Re: ZDNet Australia: Equip: Is WAP crap?

I was speaking more to the global "failure" of WAP in the sense that it hasn't taken
off nearly as well as I-Mode, or as WAP in Japan for that matter. But it's still
early...

r e n


kwilliams_at_idcjapan.co.jp wrote:

> WAP is not a failure in Japan, but I don't think people went the IDO, DDI, Tuka
> route for the WAP functionality, Very few keitai users understand the difference
> among all the phones.  There are some people (2.5 million) that just dislike NTT
> DoCoMo and everything they stand for.
>
> Kevin
>
> Brent Bossom <bbossom_at_pg7.so-net.ne.jp> 2000/06/30 09:43:45
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> > Agreed. As has been discussed before, I-Mode's success and WAP's "failure"
> > have more to do with faulty business models and poor execution than bad
> > technology.
>
> I really don't think you can call WAP in Japan a failure. 2-1/2 million
> subscribers, in just over a year, in the face of the NTT Docomo juggernaut
> and the Norika boom over on J, is pretty impressive. And all of those
> subscribers have signed on for a new, untried service (CDMAOne), not just a
> new feature on the old PDC platform.  Of course the numbers pale in
> comparison to the NTT numbers, but they are an extreme case.
>
> > And I hate my WAP phone (cdmaOne IDO by Toshiba, but at least it's clear
> > pink!)
>
> Should've got the Sony...
>
> Brent
>
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