“Apple now has the top-selling cellphone of any kind in Japan, IDC Japan determined late Thursday,” Electronista reports.
“The iPhone 4S launch helped Apple claim 26.6 percent of all cellphone shipments in the country this fall,” Electronista reports. “It may have been the first non-Japanese company to top local ranks, ending a longstanding emphasis on local makers.”
Electronista reports, “The Fujitsu-Toshiba alliance was next closest at 18.3 percent courtesy of its Arrows smartphones, while Sharp (15.7 percent), Kyocera (9.8), and Panasonic (8.8) were next. Year-long, the spike was enough to give Apple 14.2 percent of the country’s cellphone sales. Sharp (20.1 percent) and Fujitsu-Toshiba (18.8 percent) were still larger, but it did see Apple eclipse Panasonic (10 percent) and Kyocera (9.7 percent).”
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MacDailyNews Take: 血風呂!
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Jax44” for the heads up.]
Well… I work in a college in Japan and I have but 2 kinds of students: those who have a iPhone and those who want a iPhone.
With Siri soon being able to speak Japanese, your students that don’t yet have an iPhone will probably start selling body parts to get one… just sayin’.
I’m the juggernaut, dammit.
Nebu, busu.
That is a major achievement by any count.
Apple – Americas pride.
Steve Jobs!
Father and son
Whats that? Apple will never make any inroads with iPhone when it comes to Japan. Uh Huh. Yeah.
I remember the writers all saying because the iPhone is not Japanese it would never sell in Japan.
Specially WIRED.
No physical keypad, no TV, no eWallet, no place to affix a Ms. Kitty strap. Instant fail in Japan. They’ll never sell more than a couple of iPhones in Japan. All Japanese feature phones are far better than an iPhone. Circa 2008
Never try to predict the future when it comes to Apple products.
Apple products make the future.
Could someone please translate the take? 🙂 I would appreciate it 🙂
Bing can. But since I already checked, I’ll tell you, it says “blood bath”.
why Bing and not Google it? I know I know just kidding 😛
Google Translate says it means Blood Bath…
‘brud bas’
Wow. 🙂 thanks for the replies. 🙂 haha.
The Apple supplied Translation can translate, and does as “blood bath”
Shame on those who use Microsoft and Google products to do what your Mac already can. 😉
😮 where is this tool! I seriously had no idea it existed. I tried the 3 finger dictionary tap but It didn’t return any results…
I’ll make a sophisticated wild ass guess and say ‘Bloodbath!’ 🙂
MDN take, it should be 血祭り, a blood festival… You did a literal kanji of “blood and bath” – doesn’t work, however, your intent is right on!
And even then… Most Japanese won’t ‘get’ 血祭り
Right, Pi, they sure won’t… nevertheless, it just might be a
ブラッド・バース in Japan.
Just to be clear, the original article from the Japanese site says “shipments”… a good friend of mine who works closely with Softbank and knows their CEO personally has told me they basically have to give the iPhone away – I argue with him about it constantly. Regardless, the numbers are very impressive 🙂
Poor Brian X Chen.
Look, I’m not going to pretend I knew that in 1997, The new Apple under Jobs was going to become a global empire. No one knew that. Those that said they did are liars. All I wanted was for Apple to make great products again. Which they did. Changing the world? That was a bonus.
But by 2007, it was painfully clear that the Apple of the late 80s/90s was completely swept away. The iMac, iPod and iTunes had changed indurstries. Apple was flush with cash and selling millions of units a quarter.
So when the iPhone debuted, and the same people who told us that the iPod was going to be irrelevant any day now explained to us in no uncertain terms how much of a failure the iPhone was going to be… Well, I knew that someday I would be looking back on those strident predictions and gleefully running it in the faces of those prognosticators without a hint of humility.
Right, ApplePi, but I think it will still be a ブラッド・バース anyway.
The way Apple is going, they will soon conquer the world
Apple, best of the best