Interesting analysis in the New York Times.
The Taiwanese - major component providers to the iPhone and with HTC as one of the larger Win Mobile and Android players - and the Koreans = with Samsung and LG – are eternally grateful as the traditional gadget-maker to the world has slipped and allowed other Asian providers to flourish.
In the meantime the Japanese have a name for their problem: Galápagos syndrome.
“Japan’s cellphones are like the endemic species that Darwin encountered on the Galápagos Islands — fantastically evolved and divergent from their mainland cousins” says the article.
