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iPhone in Japan: 72% of Smartphone Market

Good news for Apple: Businessweek reports that the shipments of the iPhone to Japan have more than doubled in the past year, taking 72% of the smartphone market.

“Shipments of the iPhone, which began selling in Japan in July 2008, climbed to 1.69 million units in the year ended March 31, Tokyo-based MM Research Institute Ltd. said in a report yesterday. That raised the total to 2.3 million, Hideaki Yokota, an analyst at the research firm, said by telephone today.

The iPhone helped smartphone sales more than double last fiscal year in Japan as shipments of regular mobile phones shrank, according to the report. Smartphone shipments will probably exceed 3 million units in the 12 months started April 1, even as the overall market is forecast to contract for a third year, it said.”

I’d be curious to see some stats for Italy though. Very good numbers, anyway.




Found Footage: The iPad in Concert

When people start posting product videos like this, one can safely say that that product is a success. Fake (probably) or not (unlikely), Chinese pianist Lang Lang had some serious fun in walking onstage at San Francisco playing Flight Of The Bumblebee on an iPad.

Sounds crazy? Take a look after the break.

[via 9to5Mac]

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