In Japan, iPhone over BlackBerry?
According to a recent survey, the Japanese hate the BlackBerry and love the iPhone. This Nikkei Business Publications chart reveals one possible reason: smartphones aren't generally used for business there.
iShare, which conducted the survey, also asked respondents if they "feel that the number of people carrying two mobile terminals will increase as a result of the expansion of the smartphone market."
Roughly 30 percent of all respondents said "Yes," while more than 10 percent said, "No, it will decrease" as consumers look to use one device for all of their mobile-computing needs.
As for reasons why people would carry two mobile devices, 49.6 percent said "to separate business and private use."
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Most American companies seem to think that bigger is better. Most Japanese companies take a more minimalistic approach. I can see why Apple products would sell better in Japan.
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It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry,
Founded in USA by Americans, basically all the employees are American. I don't see any confusion there.
Apple beat the hell out of all the Japanese companies in its line of business AND its an American company - if that makes people cry, well then thats just too bad.
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"Well it seems apple took a few to many things out. Such as the ability to properly use dual monitors."
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What problems are you having with using more than one monitor? From my experience Apple does a far better job than Windows using as many screens as you want to toss at it. I will admit that dual monitor support is the one thing that Windows does better than Linux, however, that should change soon.
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"Respondents who use mobile data communications "rarely" or "never" for business totaled 71.0%, reflecting the fact that mobile data communications are not generally used for business. "
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I don't think the story said that the iPhone would not be used for business, but that mobile phones in general are not used in business.
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- by daverosenberg July 3, 2008 12:56 PM PDT
- I too find it interesting that the iPhone rates so high in a country where the majority of the users are using character based messaging and playing games. It seems a little hard to believe that the iPhone will be a huge hit.
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