>Electronic dictionary sales keep falling in Japan amid declining birthrates
Lazy scapegoating.
Literally every phone has built in dictionaries for both translations and kanji lookup. There’s no need to have this much product when school children are your only market.
Yea as the world turns.
On a related note, I found it interesting that the theme park ride ops had thier own mini translation device instead of a phone
But then I thought it probably makes more sense for the company to provide something than persons to use thier personal phone for company work that can keep guest data. and its probably cheaper than providing them a phone.
Instead of adapting and making a comprehensive smartphone app that people would pay for, they just blame smart phones for the decline.
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Have you seen places use those shitty translator devices rather than like, a phone app with constantly updated features and capabilities?
Japan still loves to stick to specialised devices, whether deliberately or through sheer ignorance.
The market has moved on, but I still remember hitting up Akihabara to get my electronic dictionaries both times I moved here, and it was always fun to see waves of new study-abroad students doing the same every August and January.
Haven’t seen these since the 2000s
Did they think they could get away with selling those overpriced things forever?
Are they still disappointingly deficient in profanity?
I have a lot of nostalgia about my old e-dictionary but using it in this day and age would drive me insane lol.
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>Electronic dictionary sales keep falling in Japan amid declining birthrates
Lazy scapegoating.
Literally every phone has built in dictionaries for both translations and kanji lookup. There’s no need to have this much product when school children are your only market.
Yea as the world turns.
On a related note, I found it interesting that the theme park ride ops had thier own mini translation device instead of a phone
But then I thought it probably makes more sense for the company to provide something than persons to use thier personal phone for company work that can keep guest data. and its probably cheaper than providing them a phone.
Instead of adapting and making a comprehensive smartphone app that people would pay for, they just blame smart phones for the decline.
* BlackBerry has joined the chat *
Next up: Are declining birthrates to blame for the death of sundials?
Have you seen places use those shitty translator devices rather than like, a phone app with constantly updated features and capabilities?
Japan still loves to stick to specialised devices, whether deliberately or through sheer ignorance.
The market has moved on, but I still remember hitting up Akihabara to get my electronic dictionaries both times I moved here, and it was always fun to see waves of new study-abroad students doing the same every August and January.
Haven’t seen these since the 2000s
Did they think they could get away with selling those overpriced things forever?
Are they still disappointingly deficient in profanity?
I have a lot of nostalgia about my old e-dictionary but using it in this day and age would drive me insane lol.