(keitai-l) Re: Justin Chamberlain on i-mode

Moore Derek wrote:

> But why aren't the non-official sites making money? Is it because of the
> incredible ease at which one subscribes to an official site (beautiful
> payment system).

Yup, And the fact that DoCoMo (and therefore DoCoMo-approved contents providers)
are trusted so users are more likely to buy from them.


> I know there is a lot of activity surrounding
> micropayments. Where will this go?

Same way it's gone on the web: nowhere, except for a few major players like
Amazon, Yahoo!, and AOL, who are big enough and trusted enough to have decent
revenue.

r e n


>
> DM
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Renfield Kuroda [mailto:Renfield.Kuroda@msdw.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 18, 2000 4:33 AM
> To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
> Subject: (keitai-l) Re: Justin Chamberlain on i-mode
>
> The wall is simple:
>
> it's the wall between official sites on the gateway and onofficial sites out
> there in the wild.
>
> While hits are pretty much 50/50 for official/unofficial sites, the key
> statistic
> is that 80% of the REVENUE comes from official sites.
>
> Everything outside the walls (on the Internet) is free, some stuff inside
> the
> walls are not.
>
>
>         [excessive quoting removed]

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