Jeffrey:
How about the first PC's - TRS-80, Commodore, Apple, Atari?? Have two
beers.
Daniel Isenberg
CEO, Triangle Technologies
www.triangletech.com
-----Original Message-----
From: keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net
[mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of jeffrey funk
Sent: Thursday, November 02, 2000 10:05 AM
To: 'keitai-l@appelsiini.net'
Subject: (keitai-l) business vs. consumer use
Ren and Gerhard,
Thank you so much for your good examples! I do not believe that business use
always proceeds consumer use. I asked the question because when I made a
presentation about I-mode at an e-commerce conference in DC in september,
many people (mostly academics) flat out disagreed with me. They said that
business use always proceeds consumer use and thus I-mode is an exception,
the japanese are just weird, and business use will proceed consumer use on
the mobile internet in the US. I was surprised by the reaction and I didn't
have any good examples to rebut their arguments with. Now I do! To
summarize, it sounds like mini-disc, flat panel screens (TVs before
monitors), CD and tape walkman, blue LEDs, shape-memory alloys, and probably
many others were used in consumer applications before business applications.
I feel like celebrating with a few beers!
Jeffrey L. Funk
Associate Professor
Kobe University
Graduate School of Business
2-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657 Japan
telephone and fax: 81-78-803-6913
home phone: 81-798-74-2440
e-mail: funk@rose.rokkodai.kobe-u.ac.jp
mobile phone: 090-4906-3113
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Received on Thu Nov 2 10:54:48 2000