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This Week in Tablets: Second Screens in Japan, and Microsoft’s Office failure

April 12, 2013

All this said, Japanese culture is still enamored with physical media. CD and DVD sales are robust, as are paper-based newspapers and magazines and manga comics. And streaming audio and video have been only slowly adopted.

It stands to reason that the tablet revolution is moving a little slower here in Japan, and/or is being disrupted by smartphones on the go, and connected televisions in the home. Parks Associates conducted a survey that found four out of five smart TV owners use apps regularly.

From the article, "This Week in Tablets: Second Screens in Japan, and Microsoft’s Office failure" By George Jones.

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