(keitai-l) Re: The Big Picture

From: Ben Hutchings <ben.hutchings_at_roundpoint.com>
Date: 09/10/01
Message-ID: <70B689D6582BF04690D425A24AB386E408C47D@presidio.roundpoint.co.uk>
Graham Brown wrote:
> Juergen wrote...
> > But I think that we are also a bit guilty...in our showcase
> > we like very much more to show female than male users...and
> > since the usage of i-mode is almost 50%/50% between male and
> > female, we concentrate on the more attractive 50%.
> 
> Yes, but who (m or f) honestly wants to look at male techies ?

My girlfriend isn't averse to them. :-)

> David wrote ...
> > IMHO many people have just grown so accustomed to the concept that
> > good ideas _always_ come from the US (or maybe Europe) that they
> > just assume anything from Asia must be a fluke, copy, accident,
> > regional thing or was somehow engineered/orchestrated by a foreign
> > entity.
>
> I agree. Explanations are often put down to Japanese being "gadget-
> freaks" or some other cultural phenomenon rather than a triumph of
> idea-marketing.
<snip>

It certainly seem that more Japanese consumers are willing to be
early adopters, though.  Is that just due to great marketing, or are
Japanese consumers more receptive for some reason?

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Received on Mon Sep 10 20:00:22 2001