Japanese wireless exec: “iPhone a total failure”
May 24, 2008 by dennis
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.
“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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