Venerd=EC, 11 apr 2003, alle 11:38 Europe/Rome, dc ha scritto:
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> A very intersting comment. I guess they don't consider Nokia a serious=20=
> =3D
> player :_)
Maybe they already have chosen Symbian for their strategy so Nokia is=20
not a competitor but "Coalition member" (Sorry for the contemporary=20
influence... :-) )
Not so strangely Nokia has dropped the idea of expanding Club Nokia as=20=
a content channel for their proprietary "user experience" refocusing=20
on the partnerships with the operators... They started to sell=20
customised 7650s and 3650s to Vodafone...
>
> But vodafone is trying to control the whole value chain with VFLive=20
> much =3D
> like DoCoMo did (does?).
They direct reference to MS is quite important... As a logic=20
consequence if they want to control the overall "user experience"=20
directly the need to build proprietary features into their phones and=20
not just a bookmark button like on the Panasonic GD87...
So maybe they will try to turn an open and standard based network into=20=
a proprietary one as the Japanese networks.
This could be effective or a boomerang. So maybe there will be some=20
kind of market trials in the future to see how the strategy works and=20
the market reacts...
This is quiet problematic... after the Foma experience looks like that=20=
even Ntt DoCoMo is going in the direction of adopting more open=20
standards.
> However, the biggest recent breakaway hit is ShaMail, which was=20
> created =3D
> really by Sharp, outside of the precious topdown ecosystem docomo is =3D=
> fond of.
>
> If VF does get too powerful they risk slowing down innovation.
VodaFone=3DMicrosoft?
Vodafone-Panasonic-Nokia=3DWintel?
Ciao
Giovanni
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> // [mailto:keitai-l-bounce@appelsiini.net]On Behalf Of Giovanni=20
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> // Subject: (keitai-l) Microsoft as VodaFone main competitor
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> // =3D20
> // =3D20
> // Hello to all
> // Some days ago I've been to a presentation with Vodafone Italy.
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> // Most of the presentation have been a marketing show but...
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> // After their presentation I've asked:
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> // As the market will move to a multimedia services focus and will=20
> see =3D
> the=3D20
> // involvement of new players, who is your main competitor today?
> // =3D20
> // Do you feel the risk of becoming a simple bandwith provider with=20=
> the =3D
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> // focus shifting on services and contents?
> // =3D20
> // And the Data services , VAS and Multimedia, Vodafone director=20
> for=3D20
> // Omnitel Vodafone Italy answered:
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> // Microsoft is our main competitor as much of the strategic position=20=
> =3D
> will=3D20
> // be in controlling the user experience more than the network. Under=20=
> =3D
> this=3D20
> // point of view we see a serious danger as we could be marginalised=20=
> as =3D
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> // ISPs have been.
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> // This answer was quite interesting as both handsets producers=20
> and=3D20
> // network operators look at Microsoft as the big bad brother...
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> // What do you think?
> // =3D20
> // =3D20
> // Giovanni Bertani
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> // =3D20
> // PS:
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> VAS=3D20
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> new=3D20
> // VAS models for the wireless telco industry.=3D20
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