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Japanese mobile phones kicked the ever lovin' crap out of western phones for a very long time. The Japanese got into social media way before the West did. And
by bsder 4y ago
Japanese mobile phones kicked the ever lovin' crap out of western phones for a very long time. The Japanese got into social media way before the West did. And Yahoo Japan actually still exists and seems to be doing okay.
And that's not to mention the success of Japanese video games.
The big problem that Japanese software has is simply that its market is too much smaller than anything which caters to English. This is why video games can do so well--language is of secondary importance.
- makeitdouble 4y agoTo me the main difference is they failed to push an operating system. As you say, they were really ahead in mobile, and docomo had an honest try to push imode in europe for instance, but it couldn't take off as the markets were too different. The iPhone not supporting Felica gave the maker a small bubble to thrive but android was too far behind. Now they are barely surviving.
- qiqitori 4y agoI'm probably misreading you a little bit, but here's my two yen. There were a bunch of silly operating systems in the history of computing, and Japan had a few too. TRON was pointed out in another thread, which still exists in some embedded stuff, even in modern stuff you may have used before, for example the Nintendo Switch joy-cons. But TBH, there can only be a handful of operating systems that actually matter. So you'd have to outpush some extremely pushy companies in a very tight space, and the market for commercial operating systems is almost dead anyway.