wraggster
March 14th, 2014, 23:36
Masatoshi Son, SoftBank CEO, remembers the early days when he tried to cut a deal with Steve Jobs (http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-12/how-steve-jobs-got-the-iphone-into-japan.html) in order to be the first to offer the not-even-named-iPhone-yet- 'new phone' from Apple, back in 2005. At the time, Son didn't even own a mobile carrier. He then purchased Vodafone, and was indeed the first to sell the iPhone in 2008 (then Au-Kddi in 2011, and DoCoMo in 2013). Today, 75% of smartphones sold in Japan are iPhones."
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/03/14/0257221/how-steve-jobs-got-the-iphone-into-japan
http://apple.slashdot.org/story/14/03/14/0257221/how-steve-jobs-got-the-iphone-into-japan