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I think that cities are vastly biased towards the iPhone. There's just lots of pro-iPhone people in the cities; mac users (note there are only a few mac stores
by fookyong 16y ago
I think that cities are vastly biased towards the iPhone. There's just lots of pro-iPhone people in the cities; mac users (note there are only a few mac stores in Japan and they are all in big cities), Japanese people who are more "worldly", business people or tech people who appreciate the easy access to the real web and not watered down iMode version etc etc.
But get outside the cities - you know, the other 90% of Japan - and I'd wager a guess that the amount of iPhones you see in the wild drops considerably.
So you're right in a way. There's probably very high market penetration within big cities. But outside the cities where its high school kids, X-corp salarymen, factory workers and housewives, other models dominate.
- gjm11 16y ago> outside the cities - you know, the other 90% of Japan So far as I can tell, more than half the population of Japan is in major metropolitan areas.