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> Japan simply missed the opportunity to develop a globally relevant PC software industry. The PC software industry was organized around American operating sys
by kazinator 2y ago
> Japan simply missed the opportunity to develop a globally relevant PC software industry.
The PC software industry was organized around American operating systems that couldn't even display Japanese text without having your path separating backslash turn into a yen symbol.
Pretty much nobody outside of the USA or USA-based multinationals developed a globally relevant PC (no non-PC) software industry.
There are only some rare exceptions to this like SAP (German).
All the American software was developed for English speakers, with internationalization as an afterthought. Not for the global market at all.
You could not take this approach in Japan, like oh, I'm gonna write a word processor for people here in Japan and then we will throw it over the wall to an i18n team to internationalize it and sell it everywhere else.
- potamic 2y agoChina seems to have a decent software industry
- Shank 2y agoChina also has the 996 working system in many companies. Anecdotally from many Chinese friends studying in the US, they virtually all agree: they would prefer to work for an American company or even a Japanese company, but not a Chinese company, with a very short list of exceptions (e.g., miHoYo). I think China does get results with its businesses, but it's not as if that comes for free or at anywhere close to the same cost for people in the US.