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iPhone 3GS Is Number One In Japan

Posted by kdawson on from the buddha-phone dept.

mudimba writes "The iPhone 3GS 32GB is currently the best selling phone in Japan (the 16GB version came in at number nine). This is in stark contrast to reports from earlier this year that the Japanese hate the iPhone. Nobody is sure what specific features caused the change of heart, though it is speculated that video capture and voice control might be part of the answer. When the 3G iPhone first came out it saw a spike in sales, but unlike the 3GS it was unable to outsell locally-made handsets."

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  1. Say it together.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    1...2...3...WHO CARES?!?

    Just get it over with and changed the site to an Apple fanboi site.

    1. Re:Say it together.... by DECS · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      You're probably lying about the cookie, but you now owe me one:

      The reason the RIM BlackBerry Curve's outselling the iPhone 3G in Q1 was not newsworthy (as the iPhone in Japan is) is because...

      * The Curve is sold by every provider in the US: AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, TMobile. The iPhone is only sold by AT&T, meaning it has something like slightly more than a third of the Curve's reach (Sprint/TMobile are smaller than AT&T and Verizon). It's not newsworthy to discover that Dell is outselling Apple, but it would be newsworthy to find that Apple was outselling Dell.

      * RIM has an established market for sales in the enterprise. Lots of companies sell users on BlackBerry phones, and even many iPhone users also carry a BB tied to their work.

      * The BB Curve is a simpler phone. If the BB Storm were outselling the iPhone, that might be newsworthy, because RIM would be demonstrating its ability to outsell Apple in the touch/large screen form factor that differentiates Apple. The Storm has tanked.

      * Q1 is one of Apple's weakest quarters for iPhone sales. Unlike other makers, iPhone sales are very cyclical because Apple trots out a new introduction every end of June like clockwork. That results in a huge surge in the fall quarter (when Apple outsold even RIM last year), another christmas surge in the winter quarter, but a rather anemic spring and summer quarter as early adopters saturate and people start anticipating the next big model to come.

      Things that would/will be newsworthy:

      * An Android model that outsells the iPhone
      * A WiMo model that outsells the iPhone
      * The Palm Pre outselling the iPhone
      * A Symbian phone outselling the iPhone in the US

      Things that are not newsworthy:

      * Microsoft's PR attempts to suggest that global sales of all WiMo phones are close to or tied to sales of the iPhone itself
      * Nokia's retention of a plurality of market share world wide (it's slipping too fast)
      * Android half-assedly appearing on another model that its vendor won't really promote
      * Palm still being in business (this might become newsworthy next year if it happens)
      * RIM still selling lots of phones (this will become newsworthy if the company can't maintain it)
      * Apple continuing to inhale all the oxygen in the US market despite being tied to AT&T's network.

      Letters from Microsoft: An Employee Tosses His Zune

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