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  1. Re:BULLSHIT! by zioncat · · Score: 2 · on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan

    Android phones far outsell iPhones in Japan. See these charts as just one example http://kakaku.com/keitai/smart...

    kakaku.com is a price comparison site and its popularity ranking is based on page views and not sales. It is a testimony to iPhone's popularity in Japan that a product without a need for price comparison still rank that high on price comparison site's list. As for sales number, let's go to the people who actually studies and publish those kind of number:

    In Japan, consumers' desire for all things Apple continued into the final quarter of 2013, with iOS taking 68.7% share of smartphone sales.

  2. Re:BULLSHIT! by amoeba47 · · Score: 3, Informative · on How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan

    kakaku.com is the largest online price comparison shopping site in Japan, it's very popular. The page shows a popularity ranking list of smartphones. Here's a link to a detail page (ninki ranking / popularity ranking) showing a longer list, most popular at the top http://kakaku.com/keitai/smart...

  3. Re:Hard to find Linux Netbooks in Japan by KamuZ · · Score: 2, Informative · on Linux Reaches 32% Netbook Market Share

    Check the Sharp Netwalker, Linux loaded.

    http://kakaku.com/item/K0000054614/

  4. Don't Believe The Hype! by okazakiOm · · Score: 1 · on Robots Entering Daily Life in Japan

    One of the only commercially successful consumer robots so far is made by an American company, iRobot Corp. The Roomba vacuum cleaner robot is self-propelled and can clean rooms without supervision. "We can pretty much make anything, but we have to ask, what are people actually going to buy?" said iRobot CEO Helen Greiner. The company has sold 2.5 million Roombas -- which retail for as little as $120 -- since the line was launched in 2002.
    The way this was written leads you to the impression that good ol' merican Roombas are successful in Japan, when nothing could be further from the truth. http://search.kakaku.com/ksearch/search.aspx?query=roomba&search.x=0&search.y=0 lists the Roomba 530 at around ¥70,000 (~USD680), while a check at Amazon says I can buy the exact same model in the States for USD260. I'm guessing that extra $440 isn't import robot tax. Of course, a Roomba is rather useless in your average Japanese house, where there are often raised sills between rooms.

    The Aizu Chuo Hospital spent about some $557,000 installing three of the robots in its waiting rooms to test patients' reactions. The response has been overwhelmingly positive, said spokesman Naoya Narita. "We feel this is a good division of labor. Robots won't ever become doctors, but they can be guides and receptionists," Narita said.
    I've lived in Japan for most of my adult life, and this is not an indication of cool Japan. This truly is the beginning of the end for this country as a first-tier power, economic or otherwise. Where is there any mention of nurses in the above quote? My wife, an experienced nurse in her 30s, is the person whose job those $185,000 robots are trying to take. But there aren't any robot nurses here, nor will there be any here soon. Yet her salary is shockingly low (at least compared to what she could earn in the States), and hospitals are putting pressure on the government to let in nurses from the Philippines so they can pay them minimum wage to care for an aging population. Japan doesn't allow dual nationality, thereby forcing my children to choose between US and Japanese citizenship when they reach majority, much less any meaningful immigration. Robots are a Goverment of Japan red herring to keep the populace from worrying about 2050 when the population has dropped from the current 128m to 95m http://www.prb.org/Countries/Japan.aspx
  5. Re:I was afraid of this.... by bursch-X · · Score: 0, Troll · on Adobe Universal Binaries... in 2007

    Yo, Einstein, I happen to be a German living in Tokyo. Is that outside of the US enough for you, genius? Now bear with me, because let's just do the math just for fun.

    I just checked out http://www.kakaku.com/ a site which lists the lowest prices of everything and their dog in Japan. The 1.8 GHz MacBook Pro goes for 290850 yen, (no, we don't buy from the Apple Store, duh!). Then we get kick-ass hardrive (no, not from the friggin Apple Store, ok). Any Fujitsu goes below 20000 yen, but just not having you bitch and moan that I was cheating let's make that a flat 20000 yen for the drive. Then I'm goin to buy 2x1GB RAM (PC2 5300) the lowest price is at 14980 yen per 1GB, but just so you can't say we're cheating or whatever I'll take the next higher price listed at 26040. Add it all up and we get a whopping 362930 yen, which accounts for US $ 3069, hmm doesn't at all look like 5000 bucks to me and this price here INCLUDES TAX.

    Oh, you say Apple Care.... I think Apple Care is for pussies ;-)), but if you insist, we end up somewhere around 3300 bucks or so. It still isn't $ 5000. Hmmm... And don't forget, Tokyo used to be the city with the highest cost of living all over the fucking globe for many years consecutively (they're number two right now). And even in the highly taxed Europe you won't get as expensive as 5000 bucks.

    So please stop telling anyone the new MacBook pros fully equipped will cost about $ 5000, because you've got to admit, you just pulled that number out of your ass, knowing it was completely off-base and are now trying to cover up talking about international pricing yaddayadda, thinking I was some provincial idiot from Fuckasuckalucka county somewhere in Wyoming you could impress with such pseudo-polyglotisms..

    Q.E.D.

  6. Re:iTMS not a shoe-in in Japan by greggman · · Score: 1 · on iTMS Launches in Japan

    You can see the rankings for almost anything in Japan at Kakaku.com

    http://kakaku.com/ranking/itemview/mp3.htm

  7. TV built-in PC in Japan without M$ Media Center by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Windows Media Center Edition vs. The World

    PCs with built in TV are a big hit in Japan.
    A search will show 334 models
    http://www.kakaku.com/prdsearch/desktop.asp
    (you need japanese fonts, then select TV box and then click on the button.
    However only 9 of these come with M$ Media Center.

  8. Some non-slashdotted pics by darekana · · Score: 1 · on Transmeta Mini-ITX Board Reviewed

    stats and here and here

    Looks like they want "62,800"yen or about $550 for it... think I'll hold off for a bit. :)

  9. Re:Users in Japan like this a lot by Bushcat · · Score: 1 · on Sharp Zaurus SL-C750 (P)reviewed

    Kakaku. Japanese prices for a Japanese product in Japan. Dynamism is offering a bespoke customization service, and charges a premium for that (quite fairly).

  10. Re:12? Pshaw! by andrewleung · · Score: 1 · on Want 12Mbits/sec for $21? Move to Japan.

    we're still talking Megabits per sec?!

    how about: GIGABITS per sec... to reach the potential of your gigabit ethernet equipment, in japan, you can get gigabit ethernet TO THE HOME for only ~40,000yen (~$337) per month!

    now that is SWEET!

    on bit torrent, i've been downloading stuff at like 160KBps and uploading at like 100KBps... and the best thing is: they keep giving us MORE bandwidth!!! i love it!

    the funniest thing when talking to north americans about "broadband" in the home is that they're still using "kbps"... while here, we're talking "Mbps" and greater...

    fyi, comparisons for ALL the fibre providers in tokyo, monthly leases here

    size does matter :-)

  11. Worth $1250? by ryochiji · · Score: 1 · on Sony PCG-U1
    kakaku.com (the Japanese equivalence of PriceWatch) has it listed at prices ranging from JPY148000-168000, which is roughly $1250 +- 100.

    I guess it's comparable to an iBook in price, but with a tiny keyboard and screen, it seems more like a big PDA... I watch DVD's and do some coding on my iBook, but I'm not sure I'd trade it in for this toy (hey, you gotta admit, the thing's a toy even when compared with an iBook).

    Oh, and does it run *nix? :-P