On Tue, 4 Nov 2003, Steve Oldmeadow wrote:
> Okay, how about internet diffusion statistics for households from
> www.stat.go.jp?
Sure, why not. We'll compare with the Canada/America and Europe stats from
http://www.nua.ie./surveys/how_many_online
I assume that your statistics are end-of year statistics, so I'm picking
the one closest to the end of year for the other two.
Year Japan Can/US France Germany UK
1999 21.4 45 12.9 14.97 21.15
2000 37.1 59.86 15.26 28.99 33.58
2001 44 58.5 26.28 36.37 57.24
2003 54.5
Now, these statistics are probably measuring rather different things
(the ones I have appear to be the proportion of population on line, not
the proportion of households using the Internet), and the times are not
excactly corresponding, but I even with all these caveats, it's fairly
obvious that over that time period Japan was certainly not horribly
far off from Europe, and possibly ahead of it in terms of Internet
penetration. Yet the Europeans never took to WAP the way the Japanese
did to i-Mode.
I would posit that this is because i-Mode is actually useful and
comfortable to use, much more so than you make it out to be. Have you
used i-Mode much? Perhaps you're thinking that it's like your WAP
experiences, and that's colouring your opinion of it.
cjs
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Received on Tue Nov 4 09:05:05 2003