iPhone Rocks Japan
December 18th, 2009
According data from Impress, the iPhone accounts for a whopping 46.1% of the smartphone market in Japan. The previous champ was the Advance W-Zero, which plummeted from 27.2% to 14.6% due to Apple’s intrusion. The Japanese cellphone market has always focussed on models jam-packed with features you tend not to see beyond its shores. I must admit to being rather surprised that a phone which doesn’t even boast a TV Tuner managed to rank so high—as that’s a standard function in most Japanese models. In fact, here’s an (admittedly contentious) article from Wired about why the iPhone won’t do well in Japan. . I’d be very curious to find out what constitutes a “smartphone” in Japan, as most of their dumbphones would blow our mind; and what the difference in user base is between smart/dumb.
[via 9to5Mac]
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