> Interestingly, i-mode could be a non-starter because - despite its
reported
> success in Japan - it is potentially perceived as something totally
> proprietary that's incompatible with the rest of the world. So a
strong
> brand can also have its disadvantages.
Question is: does the user care, whether the technology of his or her
fancy phone is called propriatary? Most non-technical people don't even
know what that word means. Consumers don't care about technology, and
even less about using a standard or not.
The disucssion about i-mode being a closed, propriatary and incompatible
standard is just silly, used by people who have no better arguments
against it.
Andrea
Received on Fri Mar 15 05:40:14 2002