In the largest Cellular market in the world, who has always had the most advanced cellular devices and networks – if only 9% want the iPhone, that isn’t success.

If you take the number 11.5 million and look at it in terms of US/Canada, then it looks good – but only if that were US/Canada users. In Japanese terms, that does not seem successful by any means.

Its a case of comparing Apples to Apples vs Apples to Oranges.

Just my two cents – what is your take on it Ted?

The Japanese have never had access to such a modern cell phone, so once it hits the streets they will be amazed by it’s technical abilities. 9% of 127,433,494 people is 11,469,014… and no mater how you slice it, that’s plenty of new iPhones coming to Japan.

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Keep in mind, phone in the US and Canada are piss poor. Think of it like this… when we in the West donate clothes/books to third world countries, we give them our unwanted items. The US and Canada are the 3rd world countries of technology, specifically Cell Phones.