gigaflops has some stats on katte i-appli; spicyvector probably
provides similar.
info on official stuff is harder to get. is there no 'net ratings' type
service for i-mode sites?
/dc
>
> Timothy J Mckinnon wrote:
> >
> > your best start would be the www.nttdocomo.com site.
>
> www.nttdocomo.com contains much useful information but essentially no
> market data. Most real market data are researched by private companies
> which charge for these data.
>
> > iMode is by far the most popular application platform, followed by
iAppli,
> > then easyweb, jsky.
>
> Hmmm... Timbo you are mixing up some things here. If you are talking
about
> imode-like mobile internet services there is
> (1) imode
> (2) EZweb
> (3) Jsky,
> (4) H''
> (5) .i
> In addition, there are many other mobile internet services in Japan,
> e.g. for streaming music, PC & PDA mobile internet access etc.
>
> I think the question however was for the popularity of JAVA applets.
>
> The answer here is that there are 1000s, and it's a rapidly changing
> market. Some very popular ones are games of course, train timetables,
> wheather/alarm clocks, and many more. As I said, some of the
popularity
> data you can find free on the internet, but most serious marketing
> data is researched by private companies which need to recover their
> costs and make a profit. It's a mass market.
>
> > (THe docomo phones have an inbuilt iMode access menu, but I just
tried to
> > access it with a normal browser and it would not load. I imagine
the server
> > is checking the browser type and refusing access to ie5. If you
spoof the
> > http header and insert a docomo phone type, it will probably return
content
> > to you and you could browse the application menu)
>
> By definition you can never access the "inbuilt imode menu" which is
> built into the handsets. The next level, DoCoMo's menu which resides
on
> DoCoMo's servers also you will normally not be able to access, since
> DoCoMo knows easily whether access is through DoCoMo's radio link or
from
> someone in Australia. Again this has nothing to do with the
popularity of
> JAVA applis. See our imode-faq for some of this information:
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/imode/faq.html
>
> Best regards,
>
> Gerhard Fasol
> http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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