Nobuyuki Hayashi Replies To Controversial Wired Article
An article called ‘Why The Japanese Hate The iPhone‘ from Wired by Brian Chen recently made controversy when it seemed that he didn’t get his facts right by compiling information from an older unrelated article.
He quoted Nobuyuki Hayashi a freelance journalist based in Tokyo (known as Nobi) as saying his choice of cellular weapon was the Panasonic P905i, a fancy cellphone that doubles as a 3-inch TV, features 3-G, GPS, a 5.1-megapixel camera and motion sensors for Wii-style games. This actually came from an older article titled ‘In Japan, Cellphones Have Become Too Complex To Use‘ and he only took the correct words to amplify his reason why the Japanese hate the iPhone while in fact Nobuyuki pointed out fatal flaws of the P905i such as choppy TV and signals in the subway and others. He even stressed that the usability of Japanese phones are so low due to many fancy features and gimmick that the iPhone has so much potential in the Japanese market.
The misleading article seemed to aim at the Japanese attitude towards the iPhone where they think its lame to own one but the iPhone itself is not doing too bad according to Nobuyuki. He goes on to take a detailed look at the Japanese market and how Softbank is pushing its marketing efforts for the iPhone - one of which recently is the free iPhone for a two year contract promotion.
Read on the full article from the man himself, Nobi as he presents his view on how the iPhone is doing in Japan.
Source: Nobuyuki Blog
