Japanese "hate" for iPhone all a big mistake
A report intending to portray the iPhone as "hated" in the Japanese market turns out to have been built upon fake quotations from industry writers and observers who were misrepresented by remarks attributed to them that they never made. Their actual comments on the iPhone's prospects in Japan are far more interesting.
A Wired article by Brian X Chen intended to correlate Softbank's new promotional pricing for the iPhone in Japan with a national hatred of the device that left it without any buyers. To write the article, Chen contacted Nobi Hayashi, a journalist in Japan who has frequently written on the smartphone market, to ask for his comments. While Hayashi presented an extensive and interesting reply, his feedback did not show up in the article.
