“Apple hopes to boost its share of Japan’s portable digital music player market to 80 percent from around 50 percent now, Vice President Yoshiaki Sakito said today. Apple will realize the goal with the flash memory-based iPod shuffle digital music player to be launched in Japan tomorrow, Sakito said,” Jiji Press English News Service reports.
“The iPod shuffle, Apple’s first flash digital music player, stores less music data than the company’s existing players, which use hard disk drives, but it has a smaller body size and lower price. In Japan, it is expected to retail at around 10,000 yen (US$98), about half the price of similar products sold by other manufacturers. Expressing a bullish outlook for the product’s Japanese debut, Sakito said the Apple group has received more prerelease orders for it in Japan than those placed for the iPod mini player, which became a blockbuster last year,” Jiji Press English News Service reports.
Full article here.
Here we go again
If the Japanese love it then it is a hit
My wife, recently from Japan, loves it. She feels it will be more of a monster hit than the other Ipods combined. Bye Bye Creative.
The Japanese also enjoy minidiscs and blond mullets. Speaking of the the Japanese, check out this amazing workout video made by Panasonic featuring Mariko Takahashi.
http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/22880/details/
Then click on the URL near the center of the page to watch the movie.
Its awesome awesomeness. Mariko is my hero
bd.. but Creative just came out with a butt-ugly Mini Photo viewer with a 1 inch screen! How can they not win?
” Creative has left the building ! “
“.. but Creative just came out with a butt-ugly Mini Photo viewer with a 1 inch screen! How can they not win?”
LOL 10 points!
yeah, in fact, Creative came out with better flash players four years ago, and Apple is now just catching up. how can they not win?
yeah, even their current version is bigger, harder to use, shorter in battery life, and more expensive, with many more useless features activated by unusable buttons. how can they not win?
(love the 1″ screen thing. comes with its own magnifying glass)
The problem with Creative is exactly that – they are NOT creative at all.
Their products all look clumsy and lack style. elegance any form creativity.
Ive been a designer for over 14 years now and I have learnt from my many years experience in the industry that the most creative designers or companies out there don’t need to tell the world that they are creative.
If you have a compnay called ‘Creative’ – the chances are that you aren’t!
If you are very good at what you do, whatever it is, your talent will come through without needing to tell or announce it to people.
In my opiion, Apple are the most creative Computer company out there – and guess what – they never tell people that! Everyone knows this just by looking at how there products and software are designed.
It’s what they don’t add to their products that make their products better than other companies.
Remember ou’Less is more’.
Creative should think about this…
my dad said that if i get straight A’s for the rest of this month and all of next month, i can get ipod photo AND ipod shuffle, sweet
username, congrats.
That’s quite an incentive to keep those grades up, huh?
With only six more weeks ’til the end of February, that should be no problem. Good luck.
Well, anecdotally, I can tell you my mother in law is gonna buy one over here and I probably will too. So there’s a step in the right direction towards that 80%.
solarflare,
shhhhhh… (Elmer Fudd’s voice) be vewy, vewy quiet.
Remember, we don’t want Creative to become aware of what they’re doing wrong.
Let them flail around in their own ignorance. All we have to do is sit back, enjoy the show, and knowingly smile while they go screaming into annals of defunct electronics companies. Or at least until they become ‘beleagured’. You know, like Gateway.
With all the FUD Sim Wong Hoo’s been spreading the past couple of days, he must be pretty scared. Things should get even more interesting over the next six months.
username, go to bed
fandango…
I’m so ronery…. so ronery…
I know of at least three people who got non-iPod music players for Christmas. All were returned to the store to get iPods.
I wonder how much of the competitor’s ‘sales’ are returned?
Oh no! If the Shuffle catches on with the Japanese, they’ll eat up all the stock.
As for the video, I thought it was the singer, but no, this one has bumps in weird places though at least she was wearing a Komanetch. One of the poodles has a hard-on too. Weird [chotto hen].
The more interesting part of the article is found in the full article:
“ITunes Music Store
Sakito also unveiled a plan to launch the iTunes Music Store online music distribution service in Japan at an early date, saying the group is steadily continuing its preparations.
It would not take 12 months before the Apple group starts the service in Japan, he said.”
The iPod shuffle is at such a good price point, they will make great client gifts for those who spend a fair amount with my firm.
“If you have a compnay called ‘Creative’ – the chances are that you aren’t!”
So you’re telling me Apple ain’t fruity?
Magic word: Wanted. Yes, i do mean that little new iPod. Now!
what is the WORLD is up with that video?!
that poodle exerciser is a SICKO!!!!
I’ll have nightmares of those damn poodles!
Damn you Mariko!!!!