Survey: 91% of Japanese don't want an iPhone

At present, 91% of the Japanese are waiting for the iPhone 3g to be available at softbank shops coz it's sold out at the moment. I guess people who conducted this survey hates Apple or clam phone lovers. Cheers!

I plan on sticking with my Iphone (non 3g) because I am happy with it. Like a governor on a quad/motorcycle, = 3g will not deliver what they promise, the limitation set by ATT will spoil the 'LATEST AND GREATEST" for me. I am happy with apple, I love my Imac and Ipods, but my IPHONE does what it is intended to do....long live the edge!

NEWS FLASH!!
"According to local polls in Japan say that 9% wants an Apple iPhone. 11% say they wont buy one period due to many reasons including contracting issues. 80% say that they already own a WinMo iPhone knockoff that supports dual sims and has a removable battery and supports HSDPA/3G and is unlocked globally and the people say that Apple is a satanic demon that wants to steal their soul's . Now back to Tom in the studio, Tom..."

I live i the US and I as well as most of my friends and the majority if the people savvy enough to read TAUW never changed a battery in their cell phone without getting a newer latest phone. I always thought the battery claims to be hawgwash.... Hell most people swap laptops long before they need a new battery... this is tech today!!

I didn't want one either.

Bought it after the initial price drop. Now my wife and I both have one, and so do several family/friends after seeing how it works and how convenient it is.

There is really a lot wrong with this.

1. IF this survey was accurate, it would be pretty good news for apple. 9% is pretty decent when it isn't out yet and hasn't been advertised there since Apple didn't want to spill the beans about its availability.

2. This survey was taken prior to iPhone 3G. Japan would never accept a phone without 3G. iPhone 3G is a completely different survey.

3. 402 people? Come on, that's not even close to a fair sample.

I am a Japanese and let me tell you why I want an ipod touch but not an iPhone.
We Japanese tend to email a lot using our phones. A lot meaning at least 10 mails a day, and more if you have a girl/boy you like. We use mails instead of MSN, AOL, iChat and etc. to chat with our friends.

I simply cannot imagine using the iPhone's touch panel to type mails everyday.

That is the mail reason...not the battery.

best graphic ever. makes sense to me on so many levels

Hmmm.... this article is written to sound negative unneccesarily... who titles articles on TUAW anyways?

How about this title, which is much more realistic?

"9% of Japanese users are interested in buying the iPhone... "

With a population of 128 million people, how is Apple going to supply the required 11.5 million iPhones to these buyers?

Why does everyone make the fact that 11.5 million Japanese users want an iPhone to be negative???

I don't understand how some people are interpreting these statistics...

It's just the Japanese being racist...
Americans - return back to the old days. See how many Mitsubishi cars Japan would sell in the USA (Zero) ;-)