iPhone captures 72% of Japanese smartphone market

[theprof00]

justinian 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.

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.

famousringo actually responded to my mongoloid post pretty well. Apparently, those phones are called fature phones which are different in one major way. Feature phones have a set number of features they can do, and cannot upgrade. I'm sure the pro for this is that the phone doesn't require an OS, so can be cheaper, and the costs are probably all up front, rather than paid for by some 100$ service fee every month.