iPhone iMust-Have... except...

From Credit Suisse Japan:

1. No One-Seg* digital TV tuner
2. No e-wallet function
3. Weak camera
4. Only one panel color available
5. Display of cute emoticons, emoji, is difficult
6. A lot of Japanese already own an iPod Touch (launched in October 2007)
7. Japanese women with long fingernails will not buy it (and there are a lot of them)
8. School kids use cell phones mainly for emails using one thumb, a dialpad and a jog dial (ideal for Japanese character input)
9. Uncertainty of handset cost itself, accessories, data plans etc.
10. Japan is the toughest cell phone market in the world (high level of technical sophistication, critical customers, high innovation rate etc.)

(*One seg allows you to watch live tv, believe only used in japan. One seg also available on sony psp, nintendo ds - so popular and a must have for any gadgets.)


We shall see.

Meantime, AAPL seems poised for a correction of somewhere between 15 and 30%?

"Lieutenant Dan got me invested in some kind of fruit company. So then I got a call from him, saying we don't have to worry about money no more. And I said, that's good! One less thing."