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| Subject: | Re: MobileLBSList: Re: building your own WAPsite with XyboWAP |
| Date: |
09/08/2000 12:04:27 PM |
| From: |
Gerhard Fasol |
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Are you interested in a "reality check" of your statements from
somebody actually working in the imode/internet business in Japan?
If yes, here are some corrections/clarifications to your statements:
David Toushek wrote:
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> A couple years later, millions do banking, purchase books, make
> reservations, gamble, play the stock market, and yes, check the weather,
> and horoscopes!
this is actually already the case in Japan - however it's not
"millions" but "fifteen million".
> From: Emil Friis [mailto:emil.friis@air2web.com]
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> Very few people in Japan compared to Europe/US, actually use the
> internet through computers,
if 20 million people is "very few" your statement is correct.
In most European countries 20 million is quite a lot :) But it's always
difficult to count/define internet users precisely.
> The question is whether it is too late to change what people expect from
> WAP or if WAP has already been stamped as a failure in the mind of the
> public.
I agree that market positioning is very important - most people are
interested in the value they get out of something (e.g. WAP) not in the
technology. Nobody is interested in a WYP-motor driven car, if it does
not take you from A to B substantially faster than walking, even if
WYP is an incredible standard, on which 500 car makers have agreed.
Gerhard Fasol
Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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