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iPhone Has 46% of Japanese Smartphone Market

Posted by kdawson on from the it's-little-it's-lovely dept.

MBCook writes "Despite claims earlier in the year that the iPhone was hated by Japanese consumers (later disproved), the iPhone has been doing well in the land of the rising sun and the evidence is in. Apple has taken 46% of the Japanese smartphone market, cutting in half the once 27% market share of the previous lead, Advance Sharp W-Zero3 (Japanese site). The article includes a large chart of the market share of Japanese smartphones over the last 3 years."

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  1. So why is XBox unpopular? by OrangeTide · · Score: 0, Troll

    Wait they like iPhone? How can this be? But I thought XBox is unpopular in Japanese because they hate foreign products. I guess all this time it was because XBox sucks.

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    1. Re:So why is XBox unpopular? by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll

      Wait they like iPhone? How can this be? But I thought XBox is unpopular in Japanese because they hate foreign products. I guess all this time it was because XBox sucks.

      The Japanese will buy foreign products but they are not willing to put up with half-assed foreign crap like the XBox 360 which has a failure rate in the double digits. They only buy crap from overseas (windows) when there is no other viable choice.

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    2. Re:So why is XBox unpopular? by aristotle-dude · · Score: 0, Troll

      Veiled raging at Microsoft.

      No, I just find it laughable that people choose to put up with gaming hardware that has a 30% failure rate. If it was any other product, there would be a complete recall of the production line.

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  2. bullshit... by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 0, Troll

    *troll mods coming soon*

    The way I see it, the definition of smart phone used in the article is to make sure iphone comes out on top. It is back when engadget suddenly declared '99% of smartphone traffic on our mobile-specific website is from iphone' - the reason was that blackberry was identifying itself as full browser while engadget only targetted mobile specific browser and did the calculation.

    This number means fuck-all.