Re: FLASH: HOW BIG IS FLASH IN JAPAN?

[Philippe Wittenbergh]

As seen from within Japan, I would say that, yes Flash is quite popular over

here. I subscribe to a japanese flash list that generates average 60+

messages a day, so lots of developpers are busy with the tool. And internet

is getting more and more popular, and japanese people seem to love animation

on webpages (most sites I made include some form of flash use).


Bear in mind, though, that broadband is only taking off (slowly), with most

users still on 56k modem (but that is similar to many other parts of the

world).


Philippe Wittenbergh


on 00.11.24 12:31 PM, Virgil Vergara at

virgilhawaii [dot] rr [dot] com

 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.

>

> As for real world stats, Mcdonald's Japan made their site using Flash. My

> wife who is Japanese was impressed and spent several minutes with the

Flash

> animation on the Mcdonald website and told several of her freinds. She

> called her sister in Japan and her sister said that she has already seen

the

> site and that just about everyone is visiting that site because of the

flash

> animation.

>

> My advice is that don't take your consultant too seriously. I can give you

a

> prospectus on the Internet scene in Japan as well as she could. Its just

too

> hard  to tell whether Flash has taken hold in Japan or not. Of course

people

> love flash and they really think its cute.  But right now the Internet is

> something that only the rich can afford so  it hasn't really taken hold

yet.

> It will eventually though and when it does I believe it will be more

popular

> than it is in the US.

>

> Virgil

>

>

> - --------

> Virgil Vergara

>

virgilhawaii [dot] rr [dot] com

> ICQ# 96707988

>

>

> From: facquayeyahoo [dot] com

>

> Reply-To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>> Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 20:38:51 -0800 (PST)

>

> To: flasherchinwag [dot] com

>> Subject: FLASH: HOW BIG IS FLASH IN JAPAN?

>>

>> Hi:

>> I recently saw a stat sheet on Macromdia Flash'

>> penetration around the globe. It might have been in a

>> Flashcore (LA user group) email.

>> Please, I basically need ammunition to fend off or

>> congratulate an "internet" consultant at work who

>> claims that Flash has not taken root in Japan. She is

>> driving us up the wall. Thanks so much in advance.

>>

>>

>> Francis

>>

>>



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