The iPad has been released in America. Many of you in Japan might not be able to wait until it is released here and use your extensive network of shady international connections to somehow import…
Browsing Category Japan
2ちゃん：ドコモのiPhoneキラーの歴史
Brilliant. Note how every catchphrase but one has the word “iPhone” in it. What is the first rule of marketing again? Anyways, I checked out the Xperia at the new Sony store. As it is…
Mac OS X in Asia
From arstechnica Mac OS X North American installed base almost 11%: Mac OS X only accounts for about 2.5 percent of users in Asia. The two most populous countries in the world, China and India,…
Win v. Mac in Japan
About 3% use Macs exclusively, and 13% of the sample use both. Pretty amazing. The last question, however, makes no sense. Are they saying in the Win vs Mac argument one is “functional” and one…
Japanese web browser preferences
From What Japan Thinks. By no means a definitive sample, but the 31% Firefox marketshare is encouraging. Japanese web browser preferences
Defining an iPhone killer
Excellent point made by Julien Cayzac made in three tweets: 1 SH-01B (Sharp’s Aquos Shot: 12.1M cam, 3.4” WVGA display, BluRay compatible) still top selling phone in JP Jan 4→10. iPhone 3GS is 2nd &…