Re: FLASH: Internet use in Japan

[Virgil Vergara]

Laura,


I don't think those stats are accurate. Japanese do not surf the net like we

do here in the US. Broadband is few and very expensive and access rates for

Internet connections are higher than any place in the world. The Japanese

are 2nd place behind the US in Internet usage totaling right around 28

million. But that number is misleading. Half of that is the internet phone

and most do not spend hours upon hours surfing the web due to time limits on

their access fees. 


Sorry if I didn't make myself clear about flash. But because of several of

the obsticles such as high access rates and lack of Flash websites for the

Japanese, I don't think its as popular yet as the US but gaining popularity

very fast because of the Japanese taste for animation.


Flash is widely accepted in Japan. But other barriers to its acceptance has

nothing to do with Flash at all.


Virgil 





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From: "Laura Hamilton" <mslauraviviente [dot] com>

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Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

> Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2000 10:33:26 -0800

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To: <flasherchinwag [dot] com>

> Subject: FLASH: Internet use in Japan

> 

> Virgil Vergara wrote:

> "My opinion about Japan is that it hasn't warmed up to the Internet like it

> has over here in the US. Maybe in the next couple of years. So I have to

> think that not many people use flash or looked at sites using flash compared

> to the US. The access rates are way too expensive to indulge in a site using

> flash."

> 

> ----------------------------------------------

> I just looked at some interesting stats at

> http://websnapshot.mycomputer.com/languages.html that show that of all

> languages used by web surfers, Japanese is the most predominant...more so

> than English! It doesn't make obvious sense to me right away, but there it

> is.

> 

> Just from my own personal experience, I would have to say that a greater

> percentage of Japanese are online than Americans.

> 

> There is a separate page that shows stats on plug-ins at

> http://websnapshot.mycomputer.com/languages.html. That shows that 95.4% of

> web surfers have the Flash plug-in installed.

> 

> Combine those two stats and you should be able to show that the Japanese are

> no laggards when it comes to Flash and/or the Internet in general.

> 

> Laura Hamilton

> Web Design/Usability

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