@Wes, great to see you back and its great if such a project took off. :-)
I'm on a self ban not to write anymore words until July and in closing am going to list this :
Safaricom ( I've named thee as The Queen Bee ) is always innovating ways to stay ahead of the market. And so are other Telcos. I personally believe mobile content and development is the future gateway into millions of devices. For kenyans this would mean a lot of things, information, access to services etc.
The Queen Bee is always sending out signals into the market. Towards the end of this year, it's going to have an operational data centre. Big step. How long do you think it will continue depending on music, tones, wall papers and the rest? Queen Bee is on a mission, to become the Queen of the entire land. The Queen's Bee colony has workers that run its daily operations but is missing a vital component and thus has to deal with 3rd party whose best innovation and development is not beyond what the Queen wants. So now come in the developers with their own developer bee colony and content. She will quickly sense the value the dev bee colony bring with it, especially if the content is relevant. At the same time, Queens of other bee colonies are on the look out to take ensure they also get a share.
Bottomline = they are all looking for ways to increase their presence and profits.
Someone please tell me what is going to stop the growth of kenyan developers under a common commercial goal? So please stop operating in the grey market, hiding on the internet or depending on ad revenue, or even in locking yourself in the room at the back of your house. Get formal and give yourself a chance at growth and establishment. Good Luck. :-)
On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 8:40 AM, wesley kirinya
<kiriinya2000@yahoo.com> wrote:
"...I'd like to suggest that you come together as a community and register as a VAS /Application/Content provider company..."
Mr. Aki,
You literary read my mind there. I passed this suggestion to Simon Mbuthia (I believe he is the chairman of Mobile Monday). I don't think I mentioned it in the list.
Are there any other people/companies willing to take this up? My suggestion was that we as developers register our own VAS, etc (just like u said) and we only take out a tiny percentage of revenue that will go to the day to day running of the VAS company. The VAS company is basically a shell.
Each person/company will own a stake in the VAS company depending on their contribution to starting the VAS company. The bigger the stake, the less percentage that is taken from revenue to run the VAS... I believe everyone gets the idea.
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