Posted in iPhone in Japan on Dec 17th, 2009
Serkan Toto has a post on Mobile Crunch today highlighting iPhone’s success in Asia. Among the key takeaways — Apple’s carrier partner, Softbank, has now sold 3 million iPhones in Japan*, capturing a commanding 46% of the smartphone market … It’s big in Korea, it’s probably big in China’s grey market, and the iPhone continues [...]
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Wired.com – Anatomy of a hit piece
Posted in iPhone, iPhone in Japan on Feb 27th, 2009
iPhonAsia comment: Wired.com wrote a slanted article yesterday titled “Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone” … The author, Brian X. Chen, used an 8-month old quote attributed to Nobi Hayashi to support his piece. Nobi took exception to Chen’s article and posted his recent “pre-publication“ e-mail correspondence with Chen. In my opinion, Wired.com has practiced tabloid journalism [...]
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