iPhone in Japan
December 4th, 2013
This is kind of crazy. After two months, the iPhone still dominates the top 9 rankings in smartphone sales in Japan. Consistently. That’s something like 9 weeks in a row. And not just because DoCoMo is in the picture now, they occupy only the #5 and #9 spots, compared to Softbank’s dominance of the #1, #3, #4, and #6 positions.
Apple Japan had $13.4B in sales in FY13 for them (which ended in Sept). This is up from $5.4B in FY11.
To put that in perspective, FY03 sales totaled $6B, for the entire company.
I have a friend now retired in the Santa Cruz mountains thanks to AAPL, LOL.
Funny how Japan’s programming skills utterly failed them, 1980-now.
They were supposed to take over the world, but the problem was they ran out of brains.
http://research.stlouisfed.org/fred2/series/LFWA25TTJPM647S
The US not only had a domestic university system 100X more powerful than Japan’s, we also imported the world’s brains.
Plus having the lingua franca of tech be English has helped us a lot.