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Software is as much a cultural product (like books, movies and pop music) as it is a technological product. All human interfaces exist in reference to expectati
by yobbo 2y ago
Software is as much a cultural product (like books, movies and pop music) as it is a technological product. All human interfaces exist in reference to expectations and assumptions based in culture and language.
Japanese culture isn't compatible enough with "the west" for their cultural products to have a world wide market, aside from niche things like anime. This combined with "winner takes all" markets makes it difficult. Basically, they can't expand services internationally that work domestically.
Individual Japanese developers are brilliant.
- deisteve 2y agobut if Japanese developers are brilliant it doesn't make sense that there hasn't been wide success outside Japan like American software has. I also used to think it was a cultural issue but I realized that consumer adoption cannot come without risk takers and also a prioritization from the government mainly the MIC which Japan lacks. You really can't minimize the impact America's MIC had on software adoption the same way Japanese CCTV surveillance equipments were allowed to proliferate in China (it wasn't purely for profits to give you a hint).