keitai-l@appelsiini.net writes:
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>Dear Gerhard
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>It is always interesting to hear from an orthodox i-mode believer.=20
Your post gets silly round about here. No one has reified imode, or
Docomo, and certainly no-one worhips it. So why the mock-religious
vocabulary? Were you drunk?
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>I am very aware that many people around the world worship DoCoMo and =
>i-mode, and it many ways they are right to do so.
I must confess, in Japan I have not met ANYONE who does so.
>However, my company =
>make a living from objectively evaluating mobile operators' strategies =
Nonsense. Your company makes a living by making other companies BELIEVE
that you objectively evaluate mobile operators strategies. Which is quite
different. Or are you still at the stage of believing your own marketing?
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>and from providing advice on how to make money on mobile services based =
>on those evaluations - something we do to more than 60 operators =
>worldwide.
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>DoCoMo can teach us a lot about the opportunities in the market for =
>mobile services. Operators who generate more revenue from content-based =
>services than DoCoMo, and who are seeing their ARPU going up at the same =
>time as their acquisition cost goes down, can teach us even more. Those =
>operators have created a situation for themselves that DoCoMo has not =
>experienced for years.
And would those operators have 30million or so users? Or would they be
rather smaller fry at a different stage of development?
>Many people, like yourself, are offended when we point out that DoCoMo's =
>business case is not as successful as many orthodox i-mode worshippers =
Why the ad-hominem again? On the one hand you make much play of your
claimed "objectivity" and then you spoil the impression immediately with a
gratuitous and condescending ad-hominem. Are we to understand that anyone
who disagrees with you is to be accused of this (rather obscure) religious
practice?
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>claim. Fact is that many operators are doing much better than DoCoMo. =
Are they the same size as Docomo?
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>Fact is that in those cases content providers are not restricted by a =
>proprietary platform and as such, not forced to develop services to fit =
>each individual operators' individual platform.
You mean, 30 million potential users, all accessing easy to squirt out a
chtml variant?
>I am sure many Japanese =
>content providers would very much like it that was the case in Japan.
Evidence?
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>Perhaps it is time for the mobile world to grow up and take a critical =
>look at those they call their heroes.
On the basis of your post sir, you are in no position at all call for any
other party to "grow up".
nick
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Received on Thu Dec 27 21:11:20 2001