Google Pay Suica has been getting most of the JR East Suica marketing love these past few months but Apple Pay Suica is not down and out. JR East posted […]
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Skin in the Game
The so called Renault-Nissan ‘crisis’ has been fascinating to watch, not the actual event but how it is reported in the western press. It’s like time warping back to culturally biased […]
Apple - Maps
Apple Maps Japan in-app restaurant reservations
Kagaku.com Inc. subsidiary Tabelog is one of the restaurant data suppliers for Apple Maps Japan. The recent Tabelog v6 app update added Apple Map third party extension support for restaurant […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - iPhone
Holding onto iPhone sales in Japan
note: this post has been incorporated in a separate summary post The iPhone XS Japan launch was muted with none of the lines of the 2017 iPhone X launch. But […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica
Tweet of the Day
Line Pay QR Codes can now be used with, some, vending machines. It is just 3 easy steps and 1 minute of your time. Gotta love the gadget geeks who […]
Apple - Apple Pay Suica - iPhone
Farewell to the first golden era: iPhone XR price cut and the end of Japanese carrier subsidies
The Wall Street Journal piece Not So Big in Japan: Apple Cuts Price of iPhone XR to Boost Sales outlined iPhone XR prices cuts in Japan along with iPhone X production […]