Posted by tranced
"Despite the relative success of the iPod in Japan, the iPhone 3G isn't likely to get an immediate footing in the country, according to a new iSHARE study. Of the Japanese adults polled, 91 percent say they have no plans to buy the device when it becomes available on July 11th. Of the remaining nine percent, nearly all (8.9 percent of the total) said they planned to purchase the device. Slightly under half of these are users already signed up for SoftBank, the carrier picked for the initial Japanese launch."
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Posted by Dups!
That's a scarily huge percentage. Must have Apple concerned about that part of their market.
Posted by carkitter
Actually, 9% of the Japanese market is pretty good for one model of phone. Imagine if Apple had a full range of phones like SE or Nokia!
Posted by themarques
Mmm I remember posting in the 3G ipod thread, before this survey that the Japs wont be interested in those phone, and I guess I was right.
Posted by QVGA
I'm pretty sure Apple doesnt care.
Posted by tranced
japan is a hugh percentage of world population.
Posted by gavster001
maybe because they realized that iphone is behind in terms of features.
iphone relied so much on the hype it created, but once people realized what a piece of crap it is, it made them regret buying one
if the rumored specs of 3G iphone doesnt improve, im pretty sure that japanese people are not the only one who doesnt want a 3Giphone
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Posted by QVGA
On 2008-06-19 22:07:17, tranced wrote:
japan is a hugh percentage of world population.
but its still just one country, a country where IMO even nokia is nothing!
Posted by whentheleveebreaks
I think apple would be very happy if 9% of Japanese purchased the iPhone.
I also wonder what that percentage would be if it was the x1?
Posted by themarques
On 2008-06-19 21:40:35, QVGA wrote:
I'm pretty sure Apple doesnt care.
I dont think you realise but Japan is the beta tester of the world so to speak. All functions trickle down from stuff they have had for years. So I think its a kick in the teeth for Apple when people are shunning their baby.
Posted by masseur
I'd suggest that 91% of Esato members would like phones like the Japanese have!
Posted by Muhammad-Oli
Well, if you consider that in Q1 of this year, Apple's global mobile phone market share was 0.6%, then Apple are doing extremely well in Japan to have 9% very interested and at least 4.5% claiming they will definitely buy one.
If the whole world was the same as Japan, then Apple's market share could rival or even overtake that of Sony Ericsson's (7.5%). And this is with just a single handset in Apple's portfolio, while Sony Ericsson aims to release 45 phones per year.
I think this news is being taken completely wrong. Apple are doing extremely well if these figures are accurate. I'd also expect that with the new 3G iPhone, Apple's market share worldwide may rise to maybe 3%... Imagine what they could do with more models in their line-up!
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Posted by Tsepz_GP
On 2008-06-20 15:25:40, masseur wrote:
I'd suggest that 91% of Esato members would like phones like the Japanese have!
SO TRUE!!
Posted by tranced
On 2008-06-20 15:25:40, masseur wrote:
I'd suggest that 91% of Esato members would like phones like the Japanese have!
Posted by Guto_ViP
Of course, Iphone is a sux!!! have only big screen display.
Posted by spine6
iphone 3g is a big disappointment.. Still Other manufacturer rules..
Posted by carkitter
On 2008-06-20 15:25:40, masseur wrote:
I'd suggest that 91% of Esato members would like phones like the Japanese have!
What I would like is 100Mbps internet like they have
@M-O
Exactly right! Nine percent would be a major success for any manufacturer with only one phone in thier portfolio.
Posted by xumdeo
that's quite bad, it's 91% who explicitly expressed their dislike to iPhones
and you assume all the 1-91% will buy it?
come on
dream on. there's no support for all the native services in japan, no support for QR code, which u can't really survive if ur a biz user (for name cards, for boarding passes, coupons and lining up at theme parks), no support for all the appli written for other phones, no popular japanese text predictive system (e.g. shoin), no felica electronic money (very very important), no IRSS, no one-seg tunar, no video recording, no support for chaku-uta, all songs and ringtones downloaded previously would become obsolete on the iphone, no html-MMS (decomeru)
of course 91% of the people would leave it at home even if they bought it
the remaining 9% will be shocked at the shop to realize there's so much lack to the phone, or they'll carry 2 phones eventually