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iPhone Perhaps Not a Failure in Japan, After All?
cultofmac.com - 3/1/2009
iPhone Perhaps Not a Failure in Japan, After All?
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Image: Nobuyuki Hayashi The perception of iPhone as a “failure” in Japan is largely the result of what people read in newspapers, according to Nobuyki Hayashi, the Japanese journalist who was cited as a source in the Wired article we posted on late last night , and who put ...

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iPhone Savior — ... Cocoa has held the title of Japan's top iModel for the past three years, earning the equivalent of over $200K US annually, not including endorsement money from various pet food companies eager to cash in on her fame. Miss Cocoa has become an icon in Tokyo, credited for making the iPhone a must-have gadget in Japan, contrary to recent negative reports by some. ...

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In an unusual public dispute over the current Japanese popularity of the iPhone 3G, Tokyo-based freelance writer and self-described “most famous advocate of iPhone in Japan” Nobuyuki Hayashi has taken Wired to task for republishing his eight-month old quote on the topic—originally rendered ...