Monday, November 2, 2009

Don't RIM us, we're Japanese


Interesting chat with English-speaking Apple worker today. I've seen a few iPhones around but not one RIM Blackberry. Assumed they hadn't come here yet. They have and failed. The guy speculated that the reason for failing was that you need two hands to use a blackberry and all the Japanese cell-phones (and to some extent the iPhone) can be used with one hand, which frees the other hand to hold on to a train handle. Anything requiring using two hands fails in a train culture. Kind of interesting example of understanding the market. Okay, I'll minimize the geek gadget posts.  

1 comment:

Kellie said...

Interesting. I wonder if this also holds true for NYC.