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July 04, 2006
Net majority: non-PC
Net majority: non-PC: More people in Japan now browse Web and check email via mobile than computer. There have been more mobile users than PC users for awhile, and it's cheaper to make phones than notebooks so there are more phones, but it's the use of Internet content like WWW pages that has now migrated to the pocket. This is particularly significant in a developed economy like Japan, where computer penetration had already been far higher than in developing countries. More people in Japan surf webpages on pocket devices than on workstations now -- amazing. (Adobe mobile technologies are not only already omnipresent in Japan, but the new work is exceeding expectations... bright future.)
Posted by John Dowdell at July 4, 2006 08:56 AM
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Sidenote on the link above to "Digital World Tokyo"... first time I visited the site, and it seems (from inbound comments and outbound links) to be a legit site, but much of the content seems to be taken in toto from commercial news services, and I'm not sure if they're an IDG subscriber eligible for republishing, or if this is out-of-copyright blogging style... when I checked Google News there was only one other citation, so the article itself looks like a quick but legit report, even though the IDG article (like most paper-oriented writing) did not provide direct links to the Ministry's source information. Bottom line: the story looks square to me, even though some details are missing.
Posted by: John Dowdell at July 4, 2006 09:40 AM