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Most Japanese didn't historically own desktop computers due to the average Japanese home not having enough square feet to easily accommodate them, which is why
by Alex3917 4y ago
Most Japanese didn't historically own desktop computers due to the average Japanese home not having enough square feet to easily accommodate them, which is why they adopted smartphones ten years earlier than every other country except Finland. If they had had a couple more decades to play with computers before software took off as a big industry, maybe the culture would have shifted somewhat.
- LargoLasskhyfv 4y agoThey could have used gaming consoles with more mainstreamed 'developement kits/setups' instead? That existed at least for some Sony Playstation, or something like this? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000 Running https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRON_project !1!! :-)
- entropicdrifter 4y agoI mean, going farther back, the original Japanese version of the first Nintendo console was called the Famicom, which was short for Family Computer. It had a keyboard accessory, disk system, modem, tape drive add-on, and a port of BASIC.
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoWait, what's this about Finland?
- Alex3917 4y agoIt's where Nokia is headquartered. That, combined with nordic culture, lead to very high early adoption rates among teenagers in the early 2000s.
- jonathankoren 4y agoYeah. Cell phones really took off after the local paper mill started making them in the 90s. :)
- Tijdreiziger 4y agoWell, sure, cell phones took off everywhere in the 90's, and the ones out of Finland were certainly among the more popular. GGP was specifically about smartphones, though.