iPhone, iPad and iOS Developer Thailand

Remember how those ‘iPhone haters’ (Monkey Boy and Co.) pretty much predicted the doom for the iPhone? Now, if you recall some of these ‘haters’ also predicted the iPhone’s doom in the Japanese market. If you are one of those ‘iPhone-will-not-work-in-Japan-because-the-Japanese-network-is-far-too-advanced-for-it’ and those ‘Japan-hates-iPhone’ read this and you find that having an open mind will just make you look a lot less stupid after the test of time.

“For Softbank’s chairman and chief executive, the company’s role as the only official supplier of the iPhone in Japan gives it a strong attraction in a consumer market characterized by a fascination for gadgetry. “When we launched the iPhone [in the summer of 2008], some people said those phones were not suited for Japanese cellphone users,” said Masayoshi Son at a news conference. Most Japanese cellphones are smaller and lighter than the Apple device. “But those [skeptics] have been proven completely wrong … The iPhone is selling so well that we are really feeling the boost from it,” Mr. Son said. He declined to say how many iPhones Softbank had sold, but described the handset as “the biggest contributor to third-quarter handset sales,” and “a major contributor to growth in data communication revenue.” – Wall Street Journal

Here’s an interesting feed on the excitement of being able to use Skype over the 3G network

Side Note: Defying Apple’s request NOT to use this feature on all Google’s future phones, latest Nexus 1 software update uses Apple-patented multitouch technology. So that means all gloves are off.