Jon Ellis wrote:
> Gerhard Fasol wrote:
>>there is no indication people starve for video
>>telephony.
>
>
> I'm often left wondering what it would take for video
> telephony to take off...
Some things never take off... think about video-on-demand...
However, in Japan people do move with "fads" = fashions,
so one can never know, maybe suddenly one day video-phoning
will be the in-thing, and if you don't video-phone your
friends will think you are out-of-date. But it has not
happened yet.
> Thinking about i-mode mail, it's worth considering that it's
> success could be partially attributed to simple network
> effects. If you could only send i-mode mail to another
> handset (a la SMS) would it be as popular?
sure networking helps. low price also helps, i-mode email
is MUCH MUCH cheaper for users than SMS.
> Perhaps bridging video telephony to the internet (iChatAV,
> Yahoo! Messenger, etc) would get things started.
In theory there are a number of links to fixed line video (Moppet),
http://www.eurotechnology.com/wirelessjapan2002/index.html#docomo.moppet
and fixed place video.
http://www.eurotechnology.com/wirelessjapan2003/docomo.foma.html#airview
but these are more like concept models by DoCoMo I think.
Gerhard
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Received on Mon Oct 25 05:20:00 2004