Part of Japan's success as an economic super power is built on how proprietary it's infrastructure is. The rest of the world might be using Japan's technology, but as far as I can tell, they are only using their own. They have their own cellular phone system that only Japanese cells will work on (no iphones over here). All the ATM machines only work with ATMs issued from Japanese banks. You go into a 7-11 in Thailand and you see Lays, Evian, Halls, Oreos and a hundred other imported brands. In Japan, the 7-11 stores have weird dried fish snacks and 100's of other things that are put out by Japanese companies (which makes me think that 7-11 is probably owned by a Japanese company). Actually the only thing I've seen that is mass imported are cigarettes- the Marbolo Man is making a killing over here.
As a computer guy I now completely understand why this country is continually putting out technologies that only work with their own things. When 95% of the world was using Compact Flash cards in their digital cameras, Sony was putting out the Memory Stick that nobody could use.
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