Emergic: June 3, 2006 Archives

Saturday, June 3, 2006

Nokia vs Dell in Future

Mike Evans writes: "[Nokia] sees the mobile phone as the single gadget you'll need for every form of communication, information and entertainment. They want the mobile phone (and more importantly, their mobile phones) to be your one and only access to the Internet, relegating the computer to a behind the scenes role that may only exist in servers in years to come...Just as digital cameras completely demolished the traditional film-based camera market, so Dell may see its own market start to evaporate at an ever-increasing rate. And if Nokia has anything to do with it, this is exactly the future Dell and the other computer manufacturers can expect."

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Well, I do not agree with Nokia. In my opinion you cannot compare the traditional film-based camera market with the computer market, because traditional film cameras had too many disadvantages. Traditional photography was very expensive. But regarding the Nokia statement internet access via mobile phones is very expansive and will always be.

Posted by Andy

I already use my phone to surf the web, but I still use my notebook if it's there and my desktop if I'm at it. I do not see Nokia replacing Dell.

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Posted by China Law Blog

When it comes to accessing the internet Mobile phones have several advantages and disadvantages. Mobile phones with coupled with some gadgets can compete with computers, no doubt.

Posted by Ravi

When it comes to web-surfing, screen size does matter. Portability is one thing, people are willing to compromize on some things for web access anytime, anywhere. But a computer is a computer. I see convergence in the near future. Connect your phone to a dummy terminal (laptop in ur car OR a PC in a cafe/workplace). Data is centralized, mabbe some of it even online. Transfer presentations from your Home PC onto your phone for 'on the run' viewing. But transfer it back to your office PC for presenting it to your team/customers.

Posted by Kshitij Chandan

Alibaba's Jack Ma Interview

San Francisco Chronicle had an interview in early May. Excerpts:

Q: Where does your income come from?

A: Every business that Alibaba group launches, we give three years free to users. The purpose is to make sure that we understand the customer and the customer understands the service.

With Taobao, when we launched the Web site, we promised the market that it would be free for three years. It wasn't because of competition, but because we thought you need to educate the customers.

You need to let them know what a real business-to-consumer auction is. Even now, we think it's still too early to charge because the market is so big.

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I think charging the customers in this market will never be possible.

Posted by Mary

Flash vs Windows

Michael Mace writes: "The new Adobe/Macromedia is trying to break Windows, using Flash. Most people in the tech community are viewing this as a battle over web graphics, but it's really about next-generation applications in general, which cuts to the heart of the Windows franchise. Adobe's plan is extremely ambitions, and I think it might even work."

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hmm, battle over web graphics? i hope adobe's plan won't work because i don't like flash, yeah i nearly hate flash websites. html ist the root of the world wide web and flash is only the attempt to make surfers dependend on adobe.
greetings, peter

Posted by Peter