UKNM: RE: iMode+Rant=JB?

[John Braithwaite]

also:


> JB Writes:

> Because i-mode is a Ferrari compared to the Morris Minor that is

> WAP. Bring

> on G3 and real colour, full screen, mobile internet browsing and I will be

> converted!


ahhhahhh the batteries are not getting that much more powerful that

quickly!! so you won't be seeing that until blue tooth remote batteries are

available every where....


and Palm has proved that you do need to design for the device and don't seem

to have done badly in black and white while every other manufacturer was

offering colour cut down PC operating systems... so you are also a long way

off...


JB writes:

Yup - I reckon it's going to be about 3-4 years before I get what I am only

dreaming about at the moment..... but it will be worth the wait (I might

have to succumb to a mobile before then!).

But iMode is better than the Mcommerce we have here (let's dump the WAP tag

for this one!) and will be for some time. Credit to NTT Docomo for just

going and doing it rather than meeting in small cliques with the competition

to discuss how the industry can retain a stranglehold on the market, taking

far too long before finally coming up with a protocol that could have taken

ten minutes on the back of a fag packet (OK - maybe a little longer) with

little real care about what the consumer wants.

As for 'Internet TV' I am HIGHLY sceptical of this - not because it won't

eventually work... but because Sky and OnDigital (and others)  are not going

to create open worlds where you can browse the whole net, f.o.c. at the

touch of a button - they are going to create their own little intranets with

invitees who pay large sums of money for the mall-space. Customers will be

kept within this space, unaware that there is so much to discover out there,

telling their mates that the Internet is boring and ordering Pizza through

the latest franchisee using a method that takes twice the amount of time

(especially with THEIR typing skills) and gives none of the benefit.

If they do decide to make it slightly open then they will ensure that the

whole of the Internet gets one, slow, channel and each of their franchisees

get a channel to market their wares.... and they'll call them really obvious

names like... the MONEY channel, the HISTORY channel, the PIZZA channel etc.

Here's to the corporatisation of the Internet.... it was always going to

happen - you can't stem the tide! I remember when  you could find these

great little sites with real character run by Bob in Detroit who has a

special interest... found any of them lately? No? Why - figure that one out!



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