http://domainnamesales.com/sevenmile/2007-11/japan-conformist-culture-lack-of-idns-less-pcs-and-more-portal-surfing/ Frank Schilling's Official Blog Mon, 21 May 2012 23:21:02 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://domainnamesales.com/sevenmile/2007-11/japan-conformist-culture-lack-of-idns-less-pcs-and-more-portal-surfing/comment-page-1/#comment-4655 Edwin Hayward Wed, 07 Nov 2007 06:28:49 +0000 http://www.sevenmile.com/2007-11/japan-conformist-culture-lack-of-idns-less-pcs-and-more-portal-surfing/#comment-4655 One thing missing from the article (and your comments on it) is the fact that people aren't rushing to throw out their existing PCs. PC ownership in Japan is already pretty widespread, so people are just hanging on to their existing ("powerful enough") machines longer. That would definitely account for the sales decline: a mature market versus a growing one sucking in new PC users for the first time. So the trend isn't as worrying as it might look (unless you're a PC manufacturer, of course) One thing missing from the article (and your comments on it) is the fact that people aren’t rushing to throw out their existing PCs. PC ownership in Japan is already pretty widespread, so people are just hanging on to their existing (“powerful enough”) machines longer. That would definitely account for the sales decline: a mature market versus a growing one sucking in new PC users for the first time. So the trend isn’t as worrying as it might look (unless you’re a PC manufacturer, of course)

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