FON STRIKES BACK

想不到FON这么快就有了反应，感谢“未完成“兄在板砖的砖头。FON的人在自己的BLOG上这么写：

They Copy Fon in China!

Well, after what happened to RIM, Blackberry with the Redberry I should not be surprised that they copied Fon in China. The difference though for the 150 foneros we already have in China plus all the ones who are coming is that with Fon you share WiFi in China and you roam not just China but the whole world for free as Fon is already in 140 countries.

While I know that many Chinese do not yet have a chance to roam the world I also know that most dream of doing so, and Fon is a lifetime membership. With the growth that China is experiencing we will soon see Chinese massively cruising the globe. Secondly Fon has designed its own social router and we will introduce it in China in September. This router will come at a very attractive price because we are able to place an order for 1 million routers to be sold on a global basis. From what I saw in my last visit to China the Chinese are extremely price/quality sensitive and that磗 why Fon wants to promote itself in China as a hardware product, a social router, rather than a download. So we are confident that Fon, the original Fon will succeed in China.

Still we are very impressed at how quickly they can copy us (I read the blog post but have not tested the service) and we are very aware that our partners at Google, eBay and Skype were beaten in China by local competitors who copied them and added better local marketing and we want to have a strategy that includes Chinese partners from the beginning. This is why we have teamed up with my good friend the entrepreneur Yat Siu of Outblaze who is putting together an outstanding team of Chinese partners and we have selected Accton as our key technology supplier.

作为ABITCOOL的站长，我想回应的是：是的，我们现在的样子是学习了FON，这只是我们花了1个月就掌握了FON的思想，掌握了FON的SOCAIL ROUTER技术的第一步。但是我并不认为FON的模式是合适中国的，甚至我不觉得FON的做法是可以走很远的。有多少中国人需要ROAM THE WORLD啊，而且FON有牌照在中国进行商业化运营么？而且他们吹嘘自己定购了100万台AP，吹吧。看来国外的2.0公司的嘴皮子是同样不错的。

有趣的是他提到投资FON的GOOGLE，EBAY被中国本地的对手BEATEN这个事实。所以他提到要找CHINESE PARTNER。他的朋友YAT SIU这样的人我不知道是否如同很多失败的海龟一样了解中国。他们会看见我们的做法马上和FON不一样，我们是如何很现实的操作的，没准THEY COPY ABITCOOL IN THE WORLD.

这就是2.0，中国人、外国人在很多项目上都处于相当接近的状态，都在探索。而且本身这个事情就是非常2.0的。我在BLOG上公布了项目，然后CHINA WEB 2.0 REVIEW就报道了这个事情，然后MARTIN就知道了，同时，中国的GEEK网站SOLIDOT很快报道了ABITCOOL，一天后CSDN转载了ABITCOOL的新闻，同一天，我从板砖“未完成“那里得到了FON的反馈“。这个传播，从我这里到FON，再回来，多么神奇啊，2.0的力量。