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Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal by jac_no_k on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @08:57PM (#1233489)
Look to Japan for making technology appliances.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1197702

This is a country where high speed Internet connection is common but from my observation, a lot of households to not have a general purpose computer.

Re:Twitter, Curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal by jff on Wednesday March 31, 2010 @09:22PM (#1233536)
This may help explain why so many Japanese websites seem to be utterly atrocious--fewer people looking at them.