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Japanese wireless exec: “iPhone a total failure”

May 24, 2008 by dennis  

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Sachio Semmoto, the founder and high ranking exec of Japanese wireless carrier eAccess (whose company coincidentally lost the iPhone distribution battle in Japan), recently slammed the Apple iPhone at Reuters Global Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit.

Mr Semmoto said that he believes that the iPhone is a “total failure” in the USA due to the mere fact that it cannot outsell RIM and Nokia smartphone offerings. And while he enjoyed the features of the iPhone, he did not agree with one carrier of choice distribution decision Apple took in the USA and elsewhere.

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“If I have a chance to talk to Steve, I’d like to tell him face to face: You made a wrong choice,” Mr Semmoto said. And the expression about “sore losers…” somehow comes to mind… as well as the realization that now Mr Semmoto will probably never speak to Steve. But the pride of the samurai is what matters the most, no?


 


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Japanese wireless exec: “iPhone a total failure”

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Dennis Sloutsky is one of the oldest members of iPhoneWorld.ca, having co-started the site in January 2007. He stills owns an iPhone 2G and uses it sometimes just for fun. His hobbies include traveling, writing and playing his guitar.


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  • Berg

    Actually the iPhone has outsold Nokia in the US by a considerable margin, and has about 28% of the smartphone market. Also, the iPhone is one phone with a 28% share. All of RIM has 8 phones out in the US market and only has a 41% market share.

  • moe

    sore loser? you state yourself that the man is a high ranking executive of a successful wireless carrier. i doubt he spent too long feeling sorry for himself.
    the man works in business, and what he deems a failure is the iphone distribution business strategy, not the phone itself as this article misleads us to believe. Dare i say a man in his field would have a better understanding of the phone market than the likes of your worshiped steve.
    oh, and are we calling every japanese man we come across a samurai these days?

  • Vladimir Cezar

    Sachio Who?

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