“Apple Inc boosted its share of the Japan mobile-phone market to more than a third after the country’s largest wireless carrier started selling the iPhone,” Takashi Amano reports for Bloomberg.
“Apple boosted iPhone shipments in Japan to 36.6 percent of the market in the year ended March, up from 25.5 percent a year earlier, according to Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd,” Amano reports. “The Cupertino, California-based smartphone maker shipped 14.43 million phones in Japan the past fiscal year, the researcher said.”
“After Apple, Sharp Corp. shipped 5.14 million mobile phones for 13 percent share, and Sony delivered 4.84 million handsets for a 12.3 percent share of the Japan market, according to the researcher,” Amano reports. “Samsung was No. 6 with a 5.7 percent share, the researcher said.”
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Not surprising the Japanese have always appreciated beautiful design and performance. Good news for Apple.
> Not surprising the Japanese have always appreciated beautiful design and performance.
More reason to choose Samsung over Apple.
Samsung sucks donkey balls and the Japanese know this.
Is that you, Tang?
Hey, how’s that Fingerprint Scanner working out for Samsung? The new instructions work great right?
Step 1: Insert Finger in Butt-hole
Step 2: Remove finger and Swipe, Swipe, Swipe, Swipe, Swipe…dang it….Swipe, Swipe, Swipe………..
Come back to us when you got it working okay?
But I thought that the iPhone was doomed in Japan because of local tastes being for different types of phones and phone designs. At least the pundits told me that when the iPhone first went on sale in Japan.
Yeah, that and how Japanese consumers were so intensely loyal to Japanese electronics brands, they’d never betray those brands for a (gasp) American phone.
——RM
That WIRED hit piece was so wrong. The guy who wrote that was completely wrong. Hey this is how it works for Apple stories. He’s probably a rich jerk who probably got promoted or works for a even bigger publication.