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How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan

Posted by samzenpus on from the back-in-the-day dept.

hcs_$reboot writes "Masatoshi Son, SoftBank CEO, remembers the early days when he tried to cut a deal with Steve Jobs in order to be the first to offer the not-even-named-iPhone-yet- 'new phone' from Apple, back in 2005. At the time, Son didn't even own a mobile carrier. He then purchased Vodafone, and was indeed the first to sell the iPhone in 2008 (then Au-Kddi in 2011, and DoCoMo in 2013). Today, 75% of smartphones sold in Japan are iPhones."

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  1. Re:WTF is with the Japnese? Why such a high percen by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    I kinda like some Japense perspectives. But... this chanegs everything.

    There are a lot of gay Japs