What iPhone Apps are Hot in Japan?
Have you ever wondered what iPhone apps are hot in Japan? If you're attending this year's MacWorld conference in San Francisco, you'll have a chance to find out. There, Nobuyuki Hayashi, a Japanese Mac and iPhone tech journalist and blogger, is hosting an event called "Japan iPhone Apps: State of the Market," which will be held on Wednesday, Jan 7th. If you can't make the event, here's a sneak preview of the apps being featured.
Japanese iPhone Apps
At the event, Nobuyuki Hayashi will brief attendees on the state of the iPhone market in Japan while also taking questions from the audience. Nobuyuki, aka "Nobi," will present along with twelve other leading iPhone app developers including Ryo Shimizu, the CEO of UEI, creators of Zeptopad (video).
Of course, we couldn't wait for Macworld to find out what those other apps were, so thankfully, Nobi posted some more details. According to his post, the developers attending are the creators of numerous apps including those that let you watch TV on your iPhone, draw on your screen, play MahJong and Samurai Chess, enjoy a private geisha dance, or see real-time 3D animation.
Specifically, some of the developers and apps are as follows:
- Conit (Samurai Chess)
- GClue (iKoto, iGeisha)
- HIcorp (Mascot Capsule)
- Hudson Software
- J's Avenue (Realtime 3D animation library)
- JYProduct (FingerPiano)
- Royal Gadget - Teru Teru Bozu
- PokeDía (PokeDía)
- SunSoft (Mahjong Solitaire)
- UEI (aka Zeptotools / ZeptoPad 2.0, ZeptoLiner, iShodo)
To see videos of these apps, check out Nobi's blog post where he links to several Japanese YouTube video demos. Or to see the developers introduce each of their apps individually, check out this video instead.
Note: Some of these apps are available in the U.S. iTunes app store, but your country may be different.
Image credit: iPhone Buzz
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After reading the article about the new IPhone apps that are going to be showcased at the Mac world conference in San Franciso, I was excited. As a lover of everything Apple and a big chess fan, I am curious to see what the Conit (Samurai chess) and Sunsoft apps are about.
Posted by: deedee.nunu | January 5, 2009 11:38 AM
I'd really like to have that geisha app. I've always wanted to be entertained by a geisha or two, but I can't afford real ones. I find fan flipping rather appealing and wouldn't mind listening to a few hot tunes played on that funky three-stringed axe (shamisen) they often use. I hope this geisha app has a couple of famous dance routines programmed into it.
Posted by: Constable Odo | January 5, 2009 11:59 AM
I bet they will have a netflix type service for the iphone very soon as well.
Posted by: cohnsey | January 5, 2009 9:35 PM
Who really cares?
Posted by: Tracdoor | January 6, 2009 6:09 AM