iPod Takes Japan by Storm

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Friday February 24, 2006 @09:14AM from the extremely-well-designed-storm dept.

conq writes "BusinessWeek reports on the soaring popularity of the iPod in Japan. From the article: 'iPod mania is alive and well in Japan -- one of the most competitive consumer-electronics markets on the planet. Despite an array of well-entrenched Japanese rivals, such as Sony and Matsushita, the iPod had cornered 51.3% of the digital-music player market as of the end of 2005, up from about 32% in 2004, according to research firm BCN. Sony was a distant second with 16.2%, while Panasonic grabbed just 8.2% of the market.'"

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I'm confused by rseuhs · 2006-02-24 09:21 · Score: 0, Flamebait

XBox-Fanboys constantly claim that these evil Japanese racists only buy Japanese products.
How is that possible?
1. Re:I'm confused by chris_eineke · 2006-02-24 09:43 · Score: 0, Flamebait
  
  Japanese do exhibit nationalistic pride
  Really?
  
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