Nobi on the ‘net

Friend and freelance journalist Nobi Hayashi is interviewed on O’Reilly’s MacDevCenter.  I did not know that past WWDC gatherings used to have sessions for developers on market entry techniques – valuable information for a significant and difficult market such as Japan’s!  Apple should definitely consider re-introducing a few of these sessions.  The Aozora bank’s adoption of OS X is a great story and a big boon for Apple – you almost couldn’t ask a more old-boy industry in Japan than retail banking (well okay, maybe the dairy farmers :) to adopt a promising technology – such industries go only for the well established ones.

Some nuggets of hope in Nobi’s responses about the younger generation in Japan.  Maybe it’s time to kick-start a local WWDC, eh? :)

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Posted on Friday, March 16th, 2007 at 7:17 pm and filed under Internet, geekery, macnuttery. Subscribe to RSS 2.0. Leave a comment or trackback.

One Response to “Nobi on the ‘net”

  1. nobi
    March 16th, 2007 at 8:09 pm

    Local WWDC ;)
    There used to be Japan Developers Conference (JDC). But that was only a tiny subset of WWDC; some of the key speaker repeating the session from WWDC with simultaneous translation in Yokohama. In order to get to the real meat, you had to attend WWDC anyway. :(

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