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Why Japan Hates the iPhone
Ponca City, We love you writes "With a high level of technical sophistication, critical customers, and high innovation rate, Japan is the toughest cell phone market in the world. So it's not surprising that although Apple is the third-largest mobile supplier in the world, selling 10 million units in 2008, in Japan the iPhone is selling so poorly it's being offered for free. The country is famous for being ahead of its time when it comes to technology, and the iPhone just doesn't cut it. For example, Japanese handset users are into video and photos — and the iPhone has neither a video camera, multimedia text messaging, nor a TV tuner. Pricing plans in Japan are also very competitive, and the iPhone's $60-and-up monthly plan is too high compared to competitors; a survey lat year showed that among Japanese consumers, 91% didn't want to buy an iPhone. The cellular weapon of choice in Japan would be the Panasonic P905i, a fancy cellphone that doubles as a 3-inch TV and features 3-G, GPS, a 5.1-megapixel camera, and motion sensors for Wii-style games. 'When I show this to visitors from the US, they're amazed,' according to journalist Nobi Hayashi, who adds, 'Carrying around an iPhone in Japan would make you look pretty lame.'"
In Japan, only old people use iPhones?
Taking guns away from the 99% gives the 1% 100% of the power.
Oh no, it has become self-aware!
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Have you ever noticed that they speak some strange version of the Mexican language and look unlike us? Also their food is expensive because we eat cows which are large, plentiful and docile animals, while Japanise people only eat fearsome and rare SHARKS to boast of their manliness. In conclusion, Japan is a far away place somewhere in Mexico where smart people do not eat cows. Thank you will you marry me.
*in your best schoolgirl voice*
Kawaii~~~
or alternatively
*breathing heavily and drooling*
Moe~~~
Depending on whether it's set to vibrate?
"Japan is immune to Reality Distortion Field"
The user "twitter" is a twitter sockpuppet.
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What about my electronic lavvy? It comes when you call, takes your trousers down, does everything - it's just so stylish.
Due to hit the Japanese market in... what, three years?
I'll channel the average Apple fanboy and just say that copy-and-paste is an unnecessary feature that only makes things more difficult to use. You should be glad there's no cumbersome copy-and-paste feature! Apple knows best.
'Carrying around an iPhone in Japan would make you look pretty lame.'
It doesn't do much for your reputation in the U.S. either...
I like to use the old Bluetooth headset analogy.
Old Techie: "You know how lumberjacks will sometimes put a big red X on trees?"
Young Techie (who is wearing a bluetooth headset): "Like, yeah."
O.T.: "That big red X is a sign to other lumberjacks that the tree bearing it needs to be culled from the population."
Y.T.: "Culled. That's not really a word, is it?"
O.T.: "The bluetooth headset is the human equivalent."
/s/bluetooth\ headset/iPhone/g
"I'm just here to regulate funkiness."
In addition, unlike in the U.S., where we love Japanese products, the Japanese hate our products.
Except for our rice. They LOOOOVE California rice. I thought that this was odd until it was explained to me that the Japanese had brought the rice to California, and thus it was actually just Japanese rice grown in a better climate. LOL, how do I roll my eyes on the internet?
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They gave their lives only to become a nation of dudes with man purses. If they only knew before. Or maybe they saw it coming and decided death was better.
They can comfortably sit on technology
Yeah I seen the videos too. Dirty bastards!
You thought you could break the laws of physics without paying the PRICE?
...that a particular American product isn't cutting it in the land of the rising sun. These days, there's only four things America does better than the rest of the world: music, movies, microcode, and high-speed pizza delivery.
Two words: Japanese toilet
There are a lot of American things that seem to be chic in Japan, but technology has never really been one of them. It's like trying to impress a German with your precision-engineered American luxury car or something.
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the iPhone is a partner who knows what you want, instead of someone who can offer anything you want.
So you're saying the iPhone is the wife you've had for years, knowing what you like but it may not be that hot anymore or even let you play too much. Whereas all the fancy phones are the hot mistress you like to try new things with along with streaming video cameras or one handed wiimote style play?
I heard iPhones get angry if you anthropomorphize them.
What doesn't kill you only delays the inevitable
fuck you verizon
intellectual property law is philosophically incoherent. it is your moral duty to ignore it or sabotage it
>>>What fanboyism.
I've never owned an Apple in my entire life. Swing-and-a-miss. Maybe you should just correct people when they make mistakes, with adult-style tact, rather than call them childish names.
Ass. ;-)
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it." - historian Evelyn Beatrice Hall
Great, now explain Moe without sounding like a pedophile.
I bet the iPhone - Hello Kitty Edition would sell millions
Go and wash your head out with Clorox, please. Don't do that again.
Faster! Faster! Faster would be better!
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