The Japanese trash-talk the MacBookAir

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So why hasn't the manufactures already come up with something better than or as good as the MacBook Air?
When they've got cell phones better and smaller than the iPhone (with twice as much battery life) that has just as good as capability as a small laptop notebook, why would they bother?

That's a retarded argument. I mean it's swell that phones have similar capabilities to laptops but that's not the point, that's just fluff and fun. I mean you can draw similar comparisons to laptops vs desktops but the argument is still spurious.

also it sounds like those japanese companies are just butthurt, business as usual.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Shorty

True. I'm comparing apples and oranges a little bit, but my point is that most computing needs for people in Japan are already taken care of by their cell phone services. And if you're able to watch live television news while on your commute in the subway train...I mean compare that to your cell phone in the States; I probably wouldn't need a laptop either if my phone can do that on top of all the web stuff it already has (that and also if I wasn't so addicted to online gaming as well).

Are you telling me that the japanese by and large have given up on laptops for cellphone use exclusively? seriously? I mean laptops are far more useful than just a vehicle to check email, youtube and myspace.jp.

I mean a power user probably won't use the Air like, say, a macbook pro. It's fairly limited. However the Air does have a proper keyboard and a screen larger than a few inches; it can be used for work, when a cellphone would be awkward to use at best.

The people you think of using laptops are not the type of people Apple is targetting here, in America as well as Japan.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Do you work from a laptop? I do. I mean, I don't deny that laptops will probably wane as a status accessory but they can't really be replaced by phones. That's all I was getting at.

Also I read somewhere that while jap phones are the shit in terms of gadgets and features, jap people don't use the features very often outside of like internet connectivity and cameras and shit

which makes some sense seeing as though I have no use for many of the features in my phone, but I don't really study this sort of thing so I'm not going to make a call on the topic

How ya doing, buddy?