Hi Nick,
> I am all in favour of one box that does all jobs "well enough" but the
> truth is that most keitai DON'T do all jobs "well enough". It may be
an
> MP3 player, but it has limited storage. It may store files, but it
> won't mount my "home" directory. It may download songs directly, but I
> very, very rarely want to do that - and you can bet it will have
enough
> DRM on it to make it difficult to play on another device... I want a
> decent interface to manipulate what I have downloaded - most keitai
are
> pretty horrid in the user interface department.
You're right that the first offerings won't be great, but actually you
can extrapolate:
a. battery consumption.. I doubt the first KDDI phones have a long
battery life to play sound. Actually the iPod battery has about the same
capacity of a mobile phone. And you could design a phone that you switch
to the "mp3 player mode" where it disables all power-consuming parts....
and more important, disable the antenna, so you could use it in an
airplane ;)
b. interface.. not yet, but why isn't it possible to stick an interface
as cool as iTune to a mobile phone?
c. regarding DRM, upload, download.. there is no reason why mobile
phones won't be able to be as nice as others in future. ..
So.. for short term.. I agree. For long-term, it all depends on a good
design, integration and the business model decisions ;)
Cheers,
Reto
Received on Fri Oct 22 20:42:59 2004