Japanese sumo wrestlers find iPad best for large fingers
Japan's governing body for sumo wrestling is looking to improve communication among clubs by giving out Apple's iPad.
The Financial Times reported Tuesday that the Japan Sumo Association will distribute iPads to Japan's 51 sumo training "stables." The association hopes that sumo wrestlers, who have generally been slow to adopt modern communications technology, will take to the iPad's intuitive interface and larger touch-screen.
?With faxes you can?t be sure if the message was actually received but with e-mail we can prevent that,? the JSA said. ?Plus, you can carry them around.?
Many stablemasters do not use computers, relying instead on fax or telephone to communicate. Wrestlers themselves often have trouble typing messages on keypads with their larger hands.
?When they try to send e-mail on mobile phones or PCs they often end up pressing two or three keys at once," according to the daily Nikkan Sports.
The association plans to spend about 3 million yen (over $35,000) on the iPads, which will also be given to several top JSA officials.
In May, the iPad's launch in Japan saw a "frenzy" of buyers, some of whom camped out for days to buy the device. At the Apple Store in central Tokyo, about 1200 people lined up for the release. The iPad's success in Japan comes on the heels of the success of the iPod and the iPhone among the Japanese public, a market that's notoriously difficult for overseas technology companies to penetrate.
The Financial Times reported Tuesday that the Japan Sumo Association will distribute iPads to Japan's 51 sumo training "stables." The association hopes that sumo wrestlers, who have generally been slow to adopt modern communications technology, will take to the iPad's intuitive interface and larger touch-screen.
?With faxes you can?t be sure if the message was actually received but with e-mail we can prevent that,? the JSA said. ?Plus, you can carry them around.?
Many stablemasters do not use computers, relying instead on fax or telephone to communicate. Wrestlers themselves often have trouble typing messages on keypads with their larger hands.
?When they try to send e-mail on mobile phones or PCs they often end up pressing two or three keys at once," according to the daily Nikkan Sports.
The association plans to spend about 3 million yen (over $35,000) on the iPads, which will also be given to several top JSA officials.
In May, the iPad's launch in Japan saw a "frenzy" of buyers, some of whom camped out for days to buy the device. At the Apple Store in central Tokyo, about 1200 people lined up for the release. The iPad's success in Japan comes on the heels of the success of the iPod and the iPhone among the Japanese public, a market that's notoriously difficult for overseas technology companies to penetrate.
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I mean, cmon...how is this news?
"Japanese sumo wrestlers find iPad best for large fingers"
'Still cracking me up.
You guys need to get over yourselves. If you don't like the postings, don't read them.
Why? Read them and mock them seems more fun to me.
You guys need to get over yourselves. If you don't like the postings, don't read them.
That's a valid approach - just like turn the TV off if you hate the show!
That said, while I understand AI's going to focus on Apple specific stories, after all, it's 'Apple Insider'... I get a bit sad when I see space given to a story like this... but yet when Microsoft posted their record breaking last quarter results - big news, given that for the 1st time their revenue had been predicted on AI & other sites to be lower than Apple's .. it didn't even get a story as far as I recall... that's just a bit too one sided a picture - to only choose the news that supports your view of the world.
Still, the Internet is full of alternative news sites, so I guess you can forgive AI it's bias.. just remember as a reader, that as with all media, keep your mind open...it's just their opinion.. and there may be other equaly valid views.
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People shouldn’t get so upset by someone else’s fun
There's an new commercial in this somewhere?
That's what I was thinking, but I'm not sure a really big guy in a diaper is the image Apple wants for the iPad.