iPhone : 91% of Japanese People Won’t Buy an iPhone, or How Strange Japanese Media Can Be

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 12:04 by iamlampshade
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If 9% of the Japanese population bought an iPhone, I bet apple wouldn't complain

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 12:18 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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Even 1% will be enough !

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 12:24 by Surfer, IT Manager
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Atleast they are not lying to the whole world and killing millions testing their new weapons like the west with the help of their media. If Japan don't want IPhone, let it be. They have more advance phones in Japan which no other countries have. Iphone is not a "BIG" thing to them compared to what they have there which are atleast a decade ahead of the rest. We have to stop thinking highly of our selves and expecting others to buy and love our products when its inferior to theirs in reality.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 12:35 by Daimaou, Survivor, Tokyo - Japan
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To Surfer> Please point me to these "More Advance phones in Japan" 6 years ago... Yeah for sure, nowadays a Nokia, SE or Samsung can be as good as actual Japanese phones

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 01:55 by gb
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surveys over the phone, street intercepts, or internet can be skewed by the survey itself or the people answering the questions to the people asking the questions, so you can't say internet surveys are bull. any method can be crap - we need to see the methodology on how they derived the responses.

like these two surveys. notice their sample sizes are also pretty small, but they explain their methodology.

This survey uses people from a research panel but with a smaller sample. notice q3/softbank subscribers - 25% say they may upgrade and q4/non-softbank subscribers - you could say 64% are interested in the iPhone.

http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/06/18/softbank-iphone-other-carriers-customers-more-likely-to-buy/

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 01:56 by gb
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This link seems to be what your article is referring to. So if you look pass the sensationalism - about 6% of Club BBQ members will plan on buying an iPhone. it's a free email service, so i'm thinking its the lowend of the market. i'd like to see the income of the respondents.
http://whatjapanthinks.com/2008/06/16/9-want-a-softbank-3g-iphone-in-japan/


The battery question is its own unique question. Plus it's after the iphone question. Depending on how the question was viewed (single per page or all questions on page or groups) it doesn't seem to be related to q2.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 02:08 by gb
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thing is... the owners of the study have all the data in house. their the ones playing with the data in spss/excel creating tables and analyzing it to kingdom come. for example they could create reports where they compare income levels to age groups and see who's interested - or compare by gender, markets, regions, lifestyle, interests, etc... hell, it's probably true that 6% of low income respondents will upgrade to an iphone, while 25% mid-upper income respondents will upgrade. its how you report the findings most of the time.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 02:42 by haarec, .pl
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Iki stuff like iPhone and MacBook Air are real threat for Nihhon position all over the world. Cell phones are a HUGE market and if iPhone is prefered in Nihhon - the homeland of small devices - the world wide war is over and defeat for Nihhon.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 02:54 by tokyojerry, Self-Employed, Tokyo, Japan
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First consider when that poll / sampling was taken.... prior to the announcement of the the new iphone, prior it being officially let know to Japan (and the world) it will be 3G, and to letting it be known that the price would be about 1/2 of 1st Gen iPhones. All things considered, bad timing for a poll which is pretty much useless. Now the facts on tech specs and pricing is officially made know, iShare should go out and do another poll in the wake of post-conference announcement of the iPhone, in contrast to the pre-conference poll they conducted based on existing knowledge of only 1st generation iPhones.

I've been around Softbank shops a number of times already in Tokyo over the past few days. One small shop already had 70 inquiries and it was just a small shop. They won't even take advance reservations (yet) although being overwhelmed with requests.

The test of time will soon tell.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 04:01 by EddieG
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I agree that the study is bullshit. But 9% of the Japanese would mean a 12% market share so I wouldn't call it bashing Apple

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 05:54 by darkfader, Netherlands
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Does iPhone 2.0 have NFC btw? For payments etc. Probably but I couldn't find any detailed specs.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 08:49 by Cutkillavince, MI Manager, KR, FR, NL
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@darkfader: No Iphone 2.0 doesnt' have NFC

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 09:05 by Mitch789, TKO
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It's all docomo's fault; they probably influenced the redaction of such nasty propaganda. On the opposite side, maybe apple and softbank will keep secret until the very end info about handset price,etc...for a suprise effect (?) NTTD must be shitting in their pants hoping not too many jp customers will jump on the new trendy iphone

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 09:11 by VooDooRoo, Engrish teecher, Toyama,Japan
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Japanese won`t buy an iphone cause it ain`t a flip phone and it looks different from the one style their used to(flip phone)

But then again some may take it and stop be sheeple?


V D R

Gimmie an iphone over the crap in japan.

And to surfer,japan has to get it`s head out the sand!
Korea does everything better...Really what does Japan have to offer? name one thing?

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 01:56 by gb
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Korea don't have Rodeo Boy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_mxrDFBIQg&feature=related

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 02:41 by ChristianF, Student studying Coporate Law, Orlando, Florida, USA
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I would rather take the Iphone tha one of those japanese phones because it is way better looking than the tacky thick flipphones that they offer in japan. Japanese phones are way to big and thick and they are all made out of a tacky colored plastic. I think they all look ugly. Yeah you can say that they have cool features like on seg but why have that when you can't even use in a vehicle. I prefer the phones that we have here in the US.

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 07:09 by Brett, IT, Tokyo
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most people in Japan have 1 Seg TV, they use to watch TV on the train (they don't use the phone for TV in the car - the car has it's own TV)

take good photos/video, surf the web, listen to downloaded music or watch TV and do SMS/MMS/email is what those popular chunky flip phones do.

if iphone can do email/web surfing well it will be a winner. this battery survey is stupid, i bet most Japanese don't even know their current phone has a battery that can be removed.

wouldn't supprise me if AU / DoCoMo (who didn't get the initial release of iphones) "helped" the media with their acticle against Softbank (who did get it)

lets see what the survey says after they are sold out within minutes on release date

Posted on Thu Jun 19, 10:32 by Thetrue
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Once again, BIG warning, using cellular too much causes brain CANCER !

This was CONFIRMED for one of the best neurologist: Dr. Vini Khurana.

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/mobile-phones-more-dangerous-than-smoking,410111.shtml

NO cellular or iphone to me at all (not even for free!).

Posted on Fri Jun 20, 08:12 by VooDooRoo, Engrish teecher, Toyama,Japan
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To see what a phone can do...

go here "do you like popcorn?

you will never look at your phone in the same why again!


http://freepage.twoday.net/stories/4969270/


Sizzle sizzle

V D R

Posted on Fri Jun 20, 03:27 by bousozoku, Oviedo, Floriduh, USA, Oviedo, Floriduh, USA
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How many Japan-only devices like my electronic dictionary have batteries that require a technician to replace?

Almost all of them.

Even the simple watch has a difficult battery replacement, though it's easier than most.

Apple does have a choice to design iPhone and iPod devices for easy access to the batteries but if that's the only reason people won't buy one in Japan, they're not thinking too well.

Posted on Sat Jun 21, 07:38 by ralph, bartender, sydney
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some1 asked what japan has to offer in comparison to korea. I'd say more reliable cars and ultra-cool massage chairs
BUT samsung is the best electronics company in the world and japanese girls are more easygoing than koreans, which happen to be too traditional and old-fashion sometimes, even more than jap girls, probably because their education is too repressive and it's quite common for teachers to beat and torture students in korea.
BUT I know that's all changing though it may take a while...