I didn't know that the term 'bake-off' was owned by Pilsbury. Anyway... it all reminds me of a guy who I talked to a while ago who owned zennet, who would create net pages solely for the purpose of making the blood-thirsty lawyer-monkies chase after him with tons of cease and desist letters, whereafter he would delete the page after responding to them three or four times. He would get some great letterheads and stationary and the like, and had a pretty good collection going, but then, out of no where, in the middle of a legal correspondence with Manny, Mike, and Lo (aka, the Pep Boys) he just vanished off the face of the planet. Server and all. Hmm.
The DoCoMo's success in Japan, as earlier pointed out by another comment, has greatly to do with space concerns in their country, but is probably not the only thing that must be taken into consideration when we're looking at the birthplace of such popular innovations. In Japan, the lack of success of full size desktops can be attributed this, along with the boom of conpacts, but also the cost of a telephone connection. In the land of the rising sun, the cost of a making a telephone connection is much higher than in America, as well as the price of an ISP, which often has less to do with the lack of desktop connectivity than the expense of connecting through telephones to begin with, along with the costs of a mobile connection being almost equal, sometimes less in some cases in Asia. The European market is again, in like standing, with high prices on phone and net connections, and so, the expantion of their product would make relatively good sense, with a consumer market constantly on-the-go, but in America there is much less of a market. Though the youth of America seem to be buzzing, beeping, and vibrating (forgive me), the percentage of people connected on-the-go in Asia and Europe is much higher. Though it is a really cool concept, it seems it really only makes sense to those who require such 'niftyness' by space, cost, or really, need for mobility(which is less often the case).
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I didn't know that the term 'bake-off' was owned by Pilsbury. Anyway... it all reminds me of a guy who I talked to a while ago who owned zennet, who would create net pages solely for the purpose of making the blood-thirsty lawyer-monkies chase after him with tons of cease and desist letters, whereafter he would delete the page after responding to them three or four times. He would get some great letterheads and stationary and the like, and had a pretty good collection going, but then, out of no where, in the middle of a legal correspondence with Manny, Mike, and Lo (aka, the Pep Boys) he just vanished off the face of the planet. Server and all. Hmm.
The DoCoMo's success in Japan, as earlier pointed out by another comment, has greatly to do with space concerns in their country, but is probably not the only thing that must be taken into consideration when we're looking at the birthplace of such popular innovations. In Japan, the lack of success of full size desktops can be attributed this, along with the boom of conpacts, but also the cost of a telephone connection. In the land of the rising sun, the cost of a making a telephone connection is much higher than in America, as well as the price of an ISP, which often has less to do with the lack of desktop connectivity than the expense of connecting through telephones to begin with, along with the costs of a mobile connection being almost equal, sometimes less in some cases in Asia. The European market is again, in like standing, with high prices on phone and net connections, and so, the expantion of their product would make relatively good sense, with a consumer market constantly on-the-go, but in America there is much less of a market. Though the youth of America seem to be buzzing, beeping, and vibrating (forgive me), the percentage of people connected on-the-go in Asia and Europe is much higher. Though it is a really cool concept, it seems it really only makes sense to those who require such 'niftyness' by space, cost, or really, need for mobility(which is less often the case).