PC market in Japan decreasing

Following this article, Japan is the first country in the world where the pc market has started to decrease giving way to the dominance of the mobile era. The same way ADSL has stopped its expansion in favour of fibre optics, big companies such as Toshiba, Panasonic, Sony, Fujitsu, NEC have started to bet for the future of mobile aparatus.

Nowadays in Japan, teenagers start to blog through their mobiles instead of using their computers, using a famous service called “Mobage”. Teenagers now don't use MSN-Messenger but they use service such as AU-Docomo-Softbank from their mobiles.

The 2nd most visited web in Japan, Mixi.jp, has been accessed more through mobiles than from computers; and more visits than Google Japan from PCs. Other sites such Facebook and MySpace can all be accessed and updated from handsets, as can the video-sharing site YouTube.

Mobile use is so extreme that there are novels being written using mobile phones. Obviously there are many people on the other side reading them. This is pretty amazing without taking into account that writing on japanese mobiles is easier than you would think.

It is pretty clear why consumers are turning away from PCs. Millions of people now download music directly to their mobile devices, and many more use their handsets for online shopping and to play games. Digital cameras connect directly to printers and high-definition TVs for viewing photos, bypassing PCs altogether. Movies can now be downloaded straight to TVs.