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Why Japan Gets the Cool Stuff

Posted by michael on from the scrutinizing-the-inscrutable dept.

haahr writes "Good article about why the coolest electronics products are available first in Japan and may never make it to the U.S., in Slate."

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  1. Re:Japan doesn't have a monopoly on 'cool stuff' by SpatchMonkey · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The mobile phone network in Europe is also a lot better. Roaming, btw, just means that when you go to a different country with your phone it allows you to use the foreign networks automatically (who then bill your home provider) - actually a good feature.
    It seems to me that cellphones in America are so patchy is that they have been so slow to move to GSM. But then, they have a much larger area to organise. Also, analogue is more popular and local calls are cheap/free.
    Hmm, this is a bit offtopic as the discussion is about Japan. Sorry.