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Why Japan couldn't care less about iPhone
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... Why does Japan not like the iPhone? Simple: it lacks essential features like video and picture messaging, it isn't very fashionable there, and user-friendliness isn't important to the locals. Wired's Brian Chen explains. ...
iPhone gratis en Japón, donde no lo quieren ni lo compran!
Celularis —
... sólo sea 3G, son los principales motivos por los que el público japonés desprecia al iPhone 3G.
Por éste motivo es que ahora SoftBank, la empresa que llevó el iPhone a Japón, lo empezará a entregar gratis con contratos a dos años, pues aparentemente no han vendido ni la décima parte de los millones de equipos que tenían estimados, sólo se han vendido entre 100.000 y 500.000 unidades según los informes.
La nota de Wired resalta que un smartphone muy codiciado en Japón ...
Saiba por que os japoneses detestam o iPhone
MacMagazine —
... As dificuldades que a Apple enfrenta para popularizar o iPhone 3G no Japão voltaram a ser tema de discussão após um artigo publicado ontem no final do dia pela Wired.com. Basicamente, questiona-se a ausência de recursos considerados “essenciais”, como gravação de vídeos e o envio de MMSs. ...
The Japanese Turn Up Their Noses at Your Precious iPhone [Japanese Dealzmodo]
Gizmodo —
... Wired points to the iPhone's high monthly plan, lack of multimedia messaging support, and dependence on a computer for syncing as the main obstacles to popularity in Japan. Many in Japan use a cell phone as the primary computing device and have foregone a full-sized computer, so the iPhone's requirement is a dealbreaker. Western companies historically have had trouble cracking the Japanese market (Microsoft and Nokia could attest), so it's not necessarily a shocker that Softbank is reduced to giving the suckers away. ...
Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake
AppleInsider —
... Published: 07:00 PM EST A report intending to portray the iPhone as "hated" in the Japanese market turns out to have been built upon fake quotations from industry writers and observers who were misrepresented by remarks attributed to them that they never made. Their actual comments on the iPhone's prospects in Japan are far more interesting. A Wired article by Brian X Chen intended to correlate Softbank's new promotional pricing for the iPhone in Japan with a national hatred of the device that left it without any buyers. To write the article, Chen contacted Nobi Hayashi, a ...
Apple fans denounce Wired article. Japanese still not buying many iPhones.
Boing Boing Gadgets —
... Does Japan hate the iPhone as much as Wired thinks it does? No, say local experts Nobi Hayashi and Daiji Hirata, who were somewhat misquoted by Brian Chen in his article. ...
Japoneses respondem à mídia mundial e negam detestar o iPhone
MacMagazine —
... “O artigo publicado originalmente na Wired.com é totalmente falso e já foi editado pelo menos duas vezes”, diz um deles. Aparentemente, os comentários da matéria foram “reciclados” de reportagens antigas e postos fora de contexto. Os dados utilizados inclusive envolvem uma firma de pesquisas supostamente “anti-Apple” — manipulação, como todos sabemos, é a coisa mais fácil do mundo de se fazer. ...
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