"It's also important to emphasize that the Japanese manufacturers intentionally sabotage a particular feature for each carrier in order to maintain increasingly shorter and more expensive production cycles that only reinforce the constant R&D spending cycle that leads to a false appearance of innovation."
Interesting that you mentioned SE, because apparently this tactic backfired on them and now they have no dedicated R&D for Japan anymore. From now on, all SE's Japanese models should be the same as their world-market models. Hope this means better stuff for us elsewhere rather than a prelude to a Nokia-style pullout from Japan.
“The Pixi -- a sleek, tiny device -- seems clearly aimed at the only market Palm has recently enjoyed unfettered success with: the Centro demographic.”
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"It's also important to emphasize that the Japanese manufacturers intentionally sabotage a particular feature for each carrier in order to maintain increasingly shorter and more expensive production cycles that only reinforce the constant R&D spending cycle that leads to a false appearance of innovation."
Interesting that you mentioned SE, because apparently this tactic backfired on them and now they have no dedicated R&D for Japan anymore. From now on, all SE's Japanese models should be the same as their world-market models. Hope this means better stuff for us elsewhere rather than a prelude to a Nokia-style pullout from Japan.