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Joost Not Planning Mobile Service Yet: Volpi

By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 10 Oct 2007 05:58 AM PST

Robert Andrews at our sister site PaidContent:UK interviewed Mike Volpi, CEO of online video company Joost, who told him the company has no current plans to go mobile. From the interview:

How about portable, mobile media? We have the iPhone and iPod aiming to become mobile viewing devices, as well as other types of handsets. Volpi: “I do think that’s a viable platform, for sure. I don’t think that you’re going to see us do it right now. We put a lot of work in to a quality viewing experience. I do think it’s going to be rare that people watch long-form stuff on their iPhone ... That’s not our sweet spot right now. We’ll observe it. We have technical ideas for how we would run it in an environment that is power-constrained and bandwidth constrained but we haven’t really gotten to (planning it yet)...You probably have to look at it market-by-market a little bit. In China, there are a lot of people who don’t have television sets at home but they do have mobiles. Would they watch a football game on their mobile phone? Yeah, they probably would.”

The edited transcript of the interview is here.

Posted in: Entertainment, Mobile Video, Conferences, Mipcom



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