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jasonhill
#11 Posted : Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:11:47 PM
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What is an iPhone worth in Kenya? What about a BlackBerry touchscreen? Just curious on whether I should send a few in your direction for profit.
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selah
#12 Posted : Wednesday, April 06, 2011 1:35:55 PM
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msotoville wrote:
@ Selah

If ur developing content, adds and solutions for smarter phones, I guess life is sweet. My favourite is this little app for the Iphone from Carling - see here

HOWEVER...
Considering the lion's share of the Kenyan/East African/African mobile market consist of antiquated mulika mwizi's, how does one hack it? It doesn't help that the big guns (Safcom, et al) have muscled in on the market, too.


if you look at waptrick.it works on any mulika mwizi with gprs.if you can have an app riding on such a platform sky is the limit.
I think in kenya this guy is King http://www.mbuguanjihia.com/ he has alot of insight on ways yu can crack the mobile market.
'......to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Colossians 2:2-3
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KenyanLyrics
#13 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 12:17:57 AM
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@selah Mbugua Njihia may talk a good talk, but I am yet to see a good walk from him. His company is responsible for:

1. The Zunguka.com network (nothing to shout about)
2. The Royal Media online portal, which is very poorly executed compared to the likes of Nation and Capital

If you ask me, the examples to follow in this mobile app space are Erik Hersman for his work with Ushahidi, John Waibochi, for his work with Virtual City, Karanja Macharia for his work with Mobile Planet and Ken Njoroge for his work with Cellulant
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selah
#14 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:10:52 AM
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KenyanLyrics wrote:
@selah Mbugua Njihia may talk a good talk, but I am yet to see a good walk from him. His company is responsible for:

1. The Zunguka.com network (nothing to shout about)
2. The Royal Media online portal, which is very poorly executed compared to the likes of Nation and Capital

If you ask me, the examples to follow in this mobile app space are Erik Hersman for his work with Ushahidi, John Waibochi, for his work with Virtual City, Karanja Macharia for his work with Mobile Planet and Ken Njoroge for his work with Cellulant


I totally agree with you.I meant insight,being knowledgeable about apps doesn't make you a good entrepreneur as you have stated.I think Mbugua has the knowledge but lack a clearcut execution strategy esp. when you consider he is a jack of all trade.
'......to the acknowledgment of the mystery of God, and of the Father, and of Christ; 3 In whom are hid all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge.' Colossians 2:2-3
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jasonhill
#15 Posted : Thursday, April 07, 2011 9:33:38 AM
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Mobile apps... can we be specific? What kind of apps? To serve what demographic? What kind of content or data will these apps deliver? And how will they make money? Will people pay for them, or will ads be bought? And if ads will be bought, how long am I supposed to wait while supporting the cost of the It programmers and infrastructure behind the app before I see cash?

I think that if you want to make money in Kenya in IT, it's best to stop dreaming of the next Facebook or Google for now (which are government funded, spent tens of millions of dollars before making any money at all, and don't HAVE to make money anyway) and focus on what is being serviced by outsiders... Kenya's new check truncation system... digital check images... THAT would have been a good IT focus, and is down-to-earth, brick-and-mortar money. We need to bring all current IT business and tenders "home". I read about an Indian guy that was waiting tables and a couple years later, had a Billion dollar IT business. WTF? That should have been a Kenyan.

Could still be.

Best.
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