Apart from the 'obvious' usability and feature driven isues, there are also other reasons why Japan is a difficult market. The latest network standards in Japan (since 2G in fact) are different from most of the US and Europe market where Nokia has no problem whatsoever. Because there are relativley even spread market shares in Japan (at least not a >50% Nokia as in most others) they will not sell high numbers. So it means that can't leverage economy of scale on the Japan market. indeed the ROI is in htis case clearly the driving factor as with a lot of Consumer Products the Market is closed in Japan and fighting your way in is hard. If you can't make a deal with the providers it is practically impossible. Indeed I would not be surpised if Apple will bail out as well.
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