If 9% of the Japanese population bought an iPhone, I bet apple wouldn’t complain

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.

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/

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.

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.

Does iPhone 2.0 have NFC btw? For payments etc. Probably but I couldn’t find any detailed specs.

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

Korea don’t have Rodeo Boy!

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

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

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/

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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…