The iPhone is No. 1 in Japan

Gauging the iPhone’s popularity in Japan is not easy. Just ask Brian X. Chen. He wrote a piece for Wired.com last April called Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone suggesting that despite the long lines that greeted the iPhone 3G last summer, the device was a big flop in Japan. “Apple’s iPhone has wowed most of the globe,” he wrote. “But not Japan, where the handset is selling so poorly it’s being offered for free.” Chen had to issue an apology to readers and two major revisions after his piece was torn apart in AppleInsider by Daniel Eran Dilger, writing under the byline Prince McLean, for getting initial sales estimates wrong and badly misquoting a couple key sources. But neither Dilger nor Chen had a good handle on how the iPhone was actually selling. Which is why there was some interest this week in a survey of 2,300 Japanese... [read full story]                    

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