iPhone captures 72% of Japanese smartphone market

[theprof00]

famousringo said:

theprof00 said:
wow guys check the OP.
This is some wicked spin, and it's hard to notice.
Here in America, we have a smart phone market.

There is no smart phone market in japan. Japanese phones that do all their crazy stuff are not called smart phones.
The "smart phone" market was invented by the people selling American smart phones in Japan, most likely Blackberries, Iphones, Droids etc.

The OP says they've only sold 2.3M iphones in a population of 127M people. Does that sound like 72% of the market? FYI Japanese consumers buy 30M cell phones a year.

Japanese phones have also carried digital tv since 2005 and email since 1999. Smart phone? What a joke.

Those are called feature phones. It's a blurry line, but the main distinction is that smartphones have a powerful, flexible, multi-tasking OS that is capable of running third party applications and is tied to huge data plans, while feature phones have a set of inflexible, pre-installed software which is generally pretty mediocre and they're tied to more restricted data plans. And then you've got dumbphones which perhaps have some PDA features but don't move data wirelessly.

Smartphones are pretty much destined to overtake feature phones in all markets. It's going to happen soon in NA, because our feature phone market is less developed while smartphones are coming on strong. Japan developed a huge feature phone market with some slick features, so it will take a while longer for smartphones to become dominant, but the iPhone is leading the charge.

I see, interesting distinction. From what I remember hearing, Sony was coming out with a new smartphone to rival the iphone (probably the psp2). I wonder if this is the reason...