Koło Naukowe Kultury Japońskiej

lurker_pas · Wysłany: Pon 15:33, 23 Mar 2009 Temat postu: Top 10 IT locations

Taka ciekawostka - pewnie nie jest dla nikogo zaskoczeniem, ale milo sie czyta;)

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4. Japan

Aerial view of Yokohama, Japan

Iain Thomson: When it comes to consumer electronics there's nowhere that beats the sheer inventiveness of Japan.

A walk through the streets of Tokyo, Osaka or Yokohama and you'll see shops stuffed to the gills with every gadget you can imagine and a few you can't. It's geek heaven and any technology enthusiast paying a visit must exercise considerable restrain or face angry

calls from the bank manager.

Part of this inventiveness comes from research, with over $1bn spent annually. The returns on this investment have been stunning. Japan leads the world in robotics, green technology, intelligent software and consumer electronics.

If I have one complaint about the Japanese IT market it's that they keep so much of it to themselves. I've had plenty of cases of being wowed by some new gadget (the last one being a laptop the size of a hardback book that ran Vista with grunt to spare) only to be told that you can only get them in Japan. Start exporting, please!

Shaun Nichols: The next time someone jokingly asked you where their robot butler wristwatch computers are, say that they're most likely entertaining a group of teenagers at some storefront in Tokyo.

Not only is the consumer electronics industry much bigger in Japan, it is also far more advanced in a number of areas such as gaming consoles and smartphones. Take the iPhone, for example: when consumers in Europe and North America were queuing up to get their hands on the device and raving over all of its features, analysts were worried that the Apple phone would be too " primitive" and short on features to really make a dent in the Japanese market.

To see the numerous consumer electronics areas in which Japan stands head and shoulders above the rest of the world, one only has to look at the gadget blogs. So often the coolest stuff on the gadget sites is from Japan, and almost just as often, those products are not being exported because the Japanese manufacturers are convinced that western countries are so far behind the times that we wouldn't even know what to do with these things.

It seems that if you want to see what the future of the consumer electronics industry in the rest of the world will look like, you only have to look at what was hot in Japan five or six years ago.
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Skrzyżować Tokyo z Hongkongiem, dodać odrobinke Chorwacji i będzie miejsce gdzie mógłbym żyć i umrzeć... Tylko ten styl życia... I pieniądze... Sad

Pozdrawiam,
Lurker