An American news article with terrible and inaccurate generalizations about Asian people? I'm shocked.
Apple products are immensely popular in all of Asia, because they're fucking awesome and appeal to Asians for the same reasons they appeal to Americans, for the most part. But there's no news story in that - Apple products are popular everywhere, so what.
Write a story about how Apple is being rejected using some half-cocked cultural stereotypes about Japanese people that ignorant head-nodders will use to reaffirm their own prejudices - that'll get clicks.
The person they seem to be quoting (Tero Kuittinen) is Finnish. He seems to be legit.
"Tero Kuittinen is managing director and senior analyst for Avian Securities, a brokerage firm specializing in technology companies. He has also served as senior product specialist for Nordic Partners, Inc. and in the telecom equity research groups of Sanford C. Bernstein (NYC) and Opstock (Helsinki), as well as a strategist for various Finnish mobile content start-ups. He currently resides in New York."
http://www.thestreet.com/author/638472/all.html
An American news article with terrible and inaccurate generalizations about Asian people? I'm shocked.
Apple products are immensely popular in all of Asia, because they're fucking awesome and appeal to Asians for the same reasons they appeal to Americans, for the most part. But there's no news story in that - Apple products are popular everywhere, so what.
Write a story about how Apple is being rejected using some half-cocked cultural stereotypes about Japanese people that ignorant head-nodders will use to reaffirm their own prejudices - that'll get clicks.