Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!apple!agate!telecom-request From: kddlab!lkbreth.foretune.co.jp!trebor@uunet.uu.net (Robert J Woodhead) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Re: User's Evaluation of Handheld Cellular: Fujitsu vs Motorola Message-ID: Date: 25 Mar 91 09:35:11 GMT Sender: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu Organization: Foretune Co., Ltd. Tokyo Japan Lines: 26 Approved: Telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@eecs.nwu.edu X-Telecom-Digest: Volume 11, Issue 239, Message 7 of 9 hullp%cogsci.Berkeley.EDU@ucbvax.berkeley.edu writes: >> That Fujitsu phone was developed with Japanese government money, >> targeted to destroy the Micro-TAC and Motorola. Please understand > These facts (I'm assuming they ARE facts) would only serve to > encourage me to buy the Japanese item. If they're smart enough to > figure out a way to design a competitor to the Micro-TAC that's so > good that it puts an end to the the Micro-TAC, more power to them. You are missing the point. The complaint is that the Japanese government closed it's market to the Micro Tac, and then subsidized the creation of a competitor. Moto is bitching that they didn't get a fair shot -- that the Japanese government didn't let them enter the market until the local boys had a chance to catch up and grab the market share. Even if the new Japanese phone makes the Micro-Tac look like doo-doo, Moto should have gotten their year or two of being "leader of the pack" before being deposed. The Japanese government seems to be very adept at such protectionist manuevers. Perhaps it is because the best and the brightest from the major universities go into the civil service instead of industry. Robert J. Woodhead, Biar Games / AnimEigo, Incs. trebor@foretune.co.jp