This article suggests that the reason Japan fell behind in personal computing, and over-focused on appliance-oriented computing, is because of its writing syste

This article suggests that the reason Japan fell behind in personal computing, and over-focused on appliance-oriented computing, is because of its writing system: https://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-the-ipod/ https://blog.gatunka.com/2008/05/05/why-japan-didnt-create-t... They use the fax machine over there a lot more than we do because of this.