Ori S. Neidich, cofounder and chairman of the San Francisco Wireless Data Group, has been playing with wireless data ever since he figured out how to get his Kenwood handheld dual-band amateur radio to send a maximum of six alphanumeric characters…back in 1993.
I already know what you're thinking: "Not another article about i-mode!"
You've probably convinced yourself already that i-mode is some kind of a
fluke success story, totally irrelevant to your life. You're sick of seeing
articles about it everywhere.
Well, maybe that's what others have tried to convince you of but, as I have
discovered, they are wrong, and I'll tell you why.
When I first read about the wild successes of i-mode, nearly 17 million
subscribers in less than two years, and the millions of dollars it generates
for NTT DoCoMo, I too was a skeptic. Like you, I heard the explanation over
and over again: this success is due to giggly teenage girls who like to
download animated icons. We were told time and again that it's impossible to
translate such a success in... (more)
Ori S. Neidich, cofounder and chairman of the San Francisco Wireless Data Group, has been playing with wireless data ever since he figured out how to get his Kenwood handheld dual-band amateur radio to send a maximum of six alphanumeric characters…back in 1993.
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