Japan: "iPhone? What's the fuss?" |
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While technophiles the world over got worked up and hyperventilated at Steve Jobs' announcement of the iPhone, the Japanese simply looked up a while from their keitai, then went on with their business. And the reason for this? The fact that the iPhone has nothing new to offer to them.While Jobs boasts of the iPhones new interface, the Japanese are finding it hard to believe that it is a "revolutionary product" that will "change everything". Apple also notes that the iPhone can be used to download music and surf the internet, as well as support one-way conferencing in the future. Over at Japan, the whole population have already been doing all this for years. On top of that, most phones can support five-way video conferencing, and their mobiles can also be used to buy train tickets, pay for taxi rides, design a webpage, update a blog, pay for puchases at the convenience store, book hotel reservations, watch a movie or the latest baseball game, use GPS, get exclusive content by scanning a barcode on the seats at the baseball stadium, and an entire plethora of other features and uses which Apple still seems to be clueless about (they should probably start off by checking out Strap-Ya, or something).
All this can again be attributed to one main attribute that Apple is missing, and that would be 3G technology. At the moment, the iPhone is still on a second-generation network.
So, when Japanese retailers were told about the amazing, new iPhone and its features, one shopkeeper merely laughed and said, "Sounds like business as usual".
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Welcome to several years ago, Apple. Jap phones have always been two to three years ahead of those in the US. It's disturbing to consider that what most people think is cutting-edge in cellphone technology is just an adaptation of what's been out for five years.
That's what I've heard before. The Japanese are always about 5 years ahead of us in a lot of different technology.
man the Japanese just gave apple a nice big ***** smack.
and it's all true. Though sadly i think the US will always be behind Japan. at least 2-3 years behind in the cell phone market and it sucks. Especially considering a lot of the cell phone manufactures that we buy our phones from make the same phones over there. it's just the providers over here dont want t spend any money upgrading to all those amazing services. Though if you watched the Microsoft keynote, bill gates did talk about being able to do a lot of those things through the windows mobile OS. But the Japanese can do it on any phone.
everything said on this news is TRUE.
i live here in japan and those specs were normal for our keitai's (celfon's to you). and way cheaper.
its now normal here for wireless WAN everywhere yet its not even known to some other countries.
most of my neighbors has each own wireless network. and 8GB memory sticks are coming out so any MS capable phone here can have the same HD capacity as the coming soon apple fone.
Was saying it's revolutionary in the context that none of us are japanese....
It's great, I knew they had better phones, but i'm still excited about iphone, as it's the best we will see for awhile...either that or move to Japan and learn japanese, and that's not happening for 2 years at least