Lol. I meant to send this to the phonegap list. Had both Google Groups open in different tabs.
If anyone on this list has an answer, that would be awesome, but I'll also go post it to the phonegap list as well. :-) -Jason On Feb 15, 2010, at 2:09 PM, grigs wrote: > Has anyone worked with PhoneGap to build apps for the Japanese > market? > > In particular, it appears that Apple has only 5% of the market share > there and the market is dominated by handsets and OSs that are only in > Japan. > > Morgan Stanley shows the market breakdown as: > > Sharp 26% > Panasonic 15% > Fujitsu 12% > Other 11% > Sony Ericsson 7% > Toshiba 6% > Kyocera 5% > Apple 5% > > I've been unsuccessful finding a breakdown of the market by operating > system. But from what I've read, feature phones have such advanced > capabilities that smart phones don't sell as well in Japan. > > What I'm trying to figure out is whether under the Sharp, Panasonic > and Fujitsu numbers I might found a large number of Symbian or Windows > Mobile devices that might be able to run PhoneGap-based apps. Or is > the market so dominated by Japan specific operating systems that > building something with PhoneGap won't reach a large number of > handsets in Japan. > > Thanks, > > Jason -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "iPhoneWebDev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/iphonewebdev?hl=en.
