Comments by "belstar" (@belstar1128) on "Why is Japan So Weak in Software?" video.

in the case of software its just that if you are not first don't bother you can have the best operating system in the world but its never going to be as popular as windows
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@chinesesparrows yea their takes on copyright are the worst. Nintendo rarely interacts with the fans Japanese music labels are also still refusing to upload their stuff to YouTube while in most countries they started doing this in 2010. I heard about an old Japanese computer that had super good specs for the time. but apparently you needed a lisence to make 3rd party software for it and had a lockout chip similar to the nes. but this was a pc so it really limited the amount of 3rd party support
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the marketing was also horrible i saw an ad for it once but i had no idea what it was supposed to do. if i knew what it was i would have tried it since it was awesome . but it was just some strange cryptic catchphrases .
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yea but the thing with video games is that there is always demand for more .but with non video game software its not .not a lot of people want to use a new spreadsheet or video editor every month they just want to use what works even if its not the best
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yea true but the iphone seemed quite bad at the time to a lot of people if you remember the era most people wanted physical buttons and most touch screens were bad .we know better now but it really wasn't very obvious at the time
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they started off just copying everything from other countries but started getting more creative once they had more experience and access to decent hardware
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@nomadhgnis9425 yea but Linux was barely functional back then .at least dos was more stable and easy to install. and if you know the Japanese mindset they don't care about open source at all .Japanese. companies like to control their products and not let people make modifications .
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yea true most of the world can't compete because in software you have to be the first to invent something. because once something is popular people aren't going to stop using it unless it becomes obsolete or the new version are ultra glitchy and bad . most of the times America was first because of its business culture. and in the early days it was just because they were richer than most countries .
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Linux was very bad in the early 90s
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i think its just because japan had a head start compared to most non western countries in the 1970s that were too poor. and their games are just very different usually in a good way most countries make games in the western style and you can't tell were they are from ad they don't even support the language from the country of the developers. like there was a game made in Poland but it only supports English and German. i also noticed Japanese media was more progressive towards video games in the 80s and 90s if you look at American or European media talking about video games at the time at best they viewed it as action figures or board games. and they had no idea what was going on and they usually tried to blame it for bad things and got a lot of bad censorship laws and other regulation passed like banning arcades. even the actual game developers were often teenagers you really had to look hard for people over 20 that played video games or even knew what they were. while Japanese media was more forward thinking and they saw the potential and didn't talk down to gamers. and at companies like Nintendo the teams were small by modern standards but huge by 80s standards you maybe had a team of 10 25 year old guys working on a Mario game while in America it was like one or 2 16 year olds making something during summer vacation. it was pretty much fact that most Japanese games with some exceptions were better eventually the west caught up. but in the last few years something bad is happening in the west again .
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if they keep this up japan and other countries may start to make more popular software
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also lets be honest here if you remember the 2000s you knew most people thought things like twitter and the iPhone looked bad
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they can probably try things out in the big local market without competition sometimes it can be successful in other countries like tiktok but it usually isn't.
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isn't that most countries there isn't a lot of room for competition for most types of software apart from video games .like once something like windows or android get popular most people don't want to use something else since it wont offer anything different and useful .unless it gets really bad like when internet explorer went downhill but another American company took its place .and it really takes a lot of mistakes for something like that to fall so low .
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better than japan just because the Chinese gov wants everyone to use Chinese stuff but its still not great
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