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Monday, November 5th, 2007

Japanese PC purchases on the slide

by Cam

Yahoo! (what, they’re still around?) just published a story on how now Japanese consumers in general are avoiding buying personal computers at all. There was a news article a couple years back about how the move to using mobile phones for online activity in Japan meant that an increasing number of young adults entering the workplace had never even touched a computer, so the Yahoo! story isn’t very surprising.

With Internet connected game consoles, mobile phones with advanced surfing and email capability, and TVs that can download movies (legally) directly from the net, the trend shows no sign of slowing, unless the PC makers can come up with something new to woo the masses. Knowing Japan, that just may happen, though, and when it does it’ll likely be something pretty crazy…

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Posted on Monday, November 5th, 2007 at 4:23 am
Categories: gadgetry, internet.
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Cameron has known Warren since the early 1990s, and is webmaster, designer, and developer of Freyburg.com since first helping re-work the site with Warren in 2004. In addition to posting site administration updates, he occasionally guest posts to Freyburg.com. You can find out more about Cameron at his site, Reactionlab, where he discusses topics and events related to his work as a user interface designer.

One Response to “ Japanese PC purchases on the slide ”

Cam says:

I told Warren I’d guest post a few things from Japan while I’m here this year… hopefully something cribbed from the Reddit front page counts! :)

November 5th, 2007 at 4:27 am