justinian on 24 April 2010
| 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. |
Exactly, and who were the companies making these phones? Japanese. Yet some would have you believe that the Japanese don't have a strong smartphone manufacturing market.
These phones usually only work to their full potential on Japanese networks (and I think South Korean, but don't quote me on that) so are pretty useless in the west, hence not exported there.
Japanese smartphone manufacturers like KDDI and DoCoMo has been doing this stuff for years and along with Sharp dominated the Japanese smartphone market for a long time.
