Why did Japan failed conquer the smartphone industry? Is it that they dislike the concept itself?

It's easier to type japanese on them. Their phone text input needs only 10 buttons (plus stuff like confirm, backspace, still plenty enough buttons on any flip phone) and shits out a syllable every two button presses, those syllables can then be combined into kanji if needed. It's very fast and has low failiure rate, and one of the reasons how they can pump out a million twitter posts a day.

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I really want a 4G dumbphone with a full keyboard. If I could have that, I could get away from this horrible spyware sterilizing machine.

Too busy dominating the automotive industry.

>Japan is like that. They explode with progress and then rest on their laurels, eventually being left in the dust

Could it be related to this?
cloudfront-files-1.publicintegrity.org/legacy_projects/pdf_reports/BUYINGTHEAMERICANMIND.pdf

Where would Japan be today without access to western laboratories?

Because Japan doesn't deal with change well. They reacted late and then put out crap that nobody wanted. Sony could have dominated but didn't want smartphones to cannibalize their cameras.

Just look at Japanese laptops, they all look like they're from 2005

my theory is that maybe they are just out of touch when it comes to the global market, they are too xenophobic to think outside their borders and cater to their own first. Expanding their efforts into mobiles probably isn't a major priority and they would rather refine their technology that goes into smartphones.

I have a feeling in the near future they will come out with some crazy new tech and will totally slam dunk on the current gen phone tech (which hasn't changed in years)

>all built on stolen code.
It's called "open sores", dad

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Trying to take down the samurai

they build to last. that's not profitable.

I really liked the design of Sony and Sharp's Android phones, but they were always six months to a year behind on components, and priced like a current flagship. I don't know how both companies could so thoroughly fail to compete with Samsung, LG, and even Motorola.

It is when you're building industrial equipment

I do understand why though. Just look at all the changes to technology we're making in the west just for the sake of being different and flooding the market with even more gimmicks. Personally I like skipping all the memes and get some good fundamentally well designed product. If an idea is good I'll adopt it eventually, no need to rush.

-Japan's phones lacked standardization. Apple and Google brought a lot of standardization to smart phones which was very important to their success. Think about this, the "real" smart phone basically didn't exist on the market because carriers and manufacturers didn't give a fuck, two software companies had to do it for them. Before that it was just Blackberry, which while standard was also too enclosed/walled garden.
-Lost manufacturing edge to Korea and Taiwan
-As said above, Japan only designs phones for Japanese people. In actual, correct terms, this means Japan only designs phones based on market research conducted by stupid corporations. This creates obvious holes in perception where the manufacturer just looks kind of oblivious to the tech progress going on around them.
-Ergonomics is a stupid part of the tech industry and the winner is arbitrary, and phones are 99.999% ergonomic devices, everything else second, starting with "and you can make a phone call anywhere!"

tons of chinese h1b programmers here these days.

From what I've heard about the reality of Japan and not Western stereotypes or misconceptions of Japanese culture, Japan is more like 1950s America than anything, so I would say they dislike the concept itself since their primary means of communication (even socially) is email.

Using email primarily sounds comfy

sony was fucking up free lunches far before that.

email is hyper comfy

which is an industry Japan still dominates
but they're getting their shit kicked in when it comes to consumer electronics

this man understands the japanese soul

smartphones are ugly and big. japan loves compact design.

There is also the fact that Japan loves and excels at single purpose tech. USA loves stuffing tech with as many functions as it will hold.

it is largely cultural differences. I don't buy the "slow to innovate" nonsense because Japan leads the world in other areas of technology. I think they've largely had a "this is good enough" attitude for IT for a while though. they also probably don't feel the need to compete with Taiwan and Korea in those fields since those countries already have a stranglehold on IT hardware.

Korea benefits immensely from being classified under "developing country". China does as well, to the point that Japan, a developed country, cannot compete on cheap shit.

Forgot this.

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You just gave me a nostalgia of when I used to chat with friends via yahoo email before social media and before texting became a thing because of the tedious multi-tap and texts-counting-as-minutes process.

NEC lost in the 90s and didn't learn their lesson in the 00s.

>They're also really bad programmers because of the language gap,
They programmed for their own domestic computers and were ahead of the curve on mobile phones for a decade. Their problem was not exporting any of it abroad.

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there are a lot of japanese Emacs hackers

No they don't. It's like 90% iPhone over there

this answer is just wrong and the person who wrote it is dumb

This thread in a nutshell:
Japs prefer well made, comfortable to use technologies with an importance in familiarity and simplicity over the cutting edge slow dripping of "innovation" the rest of the global market subscribes to preferring to make leaps in technology instead of wasting time with everything in between

These are the people who went from samurai to airplanes