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from the ubiquitous? dept

Thu, Nov 8th 2001 2:17am — Mike Masnick
A good article trashing a recent Accenture report saying that mobile commerce will soon be called "uCommerce" for "ubiquitous commerce". The article takes issue with many of the points in the report. The main point being that it's unclear that people really want to be able to shop any time from anywhere, using their mobile phones. It's amazing how many reports don't ever figure out what people want when they start making their predictions.
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    vincent, 8 Nov 2001 @ 4:50am

    What people want

    is often very surprising. I for one wouldn't have
    ever thought that people would *buy* mobile phone
    ring tunes! That's a stupid thing to do if there
    is one, but apparently people do. As long as there
    is sufficient buzz and ads around it, people will
    probably think they need it. Maybe not for long,
    granted. But by then the companies that started it
    will be somewhere else trying to find another way
    to trick people.

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