An astounding number of websites on the Japanese web fail to declare charset, resulting in garbled text (文字化け), requiring the user to manually switch encoding. Safari on the Mac or PC allows you to switch via the View menu. Unfortunately there is no such menu for Mobile Safari. The iPad is billed as an amazingContinue reading “Substandard web-browsing experience on the iPad and iPhone”
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PSA: If you are living in Japan, you might want to wait for the iPad
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 the device. I am jealous of your reach, but I come with a word of warning: one of the mostContinue reading “PSA: If you are living in Japan, you might want to wait for the iPad”
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 an Android phone, there is nothing really special to say about it from a software perspective. But I have toContinue reading “2ちゃん：ドコモのiPhoneキラーの歴史”
Photos from my weekend in Kyoto where it was snowing for hanami (!?).
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, have an even lower percentage overall—1.9 and 1.2 percent, respectively. Japan is likely responsible for the majority of Mac OSContinue reading “Mac OS X in Asia”
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 is “design”? That is a false dichotomy. Via whatjapanthinks.com Win v. Mac in Japan
Anti-foreign vote fridge magnet I got in the post today. (Just to clarify, everyone got it, they weren’t targeting me or anything.)
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 & 3rd 2 It’s been quite a while since iPhone hasn’t made it back to 1st position in rankings, despite beingContinue reading “Defining an iPhone killer”
SLIDE: The three mistaken assumptions of foreign cellphone operators in Japan: “QWERTY” is the most comfortable input for every human being People want their PC experience on a mobile Two handed multitouch is always easier than single handed From @akky Akimoto’s presentation on Japan’s tech scene to the Taiwanese tech community. The presentation has aContinue reading
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