What? The digital interfaces in Japan looked and felt like they were at least 10 years behind the curve. And if "energy dense" you mean that every single possible option was crammed to a small screen estate then sure.

Is it a coincidence that sony and nintendo have horrendous online offerings?

I have a personal lifetime ban on buying Panasonic/Matsushita products because of the cruddy alpha quality firmware they built into a dvd player. It crashed 100% of the time when playing CDs among many other unforgivable flaws. Their fix in the revised model was to put a reset button on the front panel. Japan cannot manage complex software without a lot of time and manpower.

I can see that you mean well but I really cannot agree with this statement.

I feel as though I was thinking about web applications for major companies and everyone else was thinking of software for built in electronics, which I agree is awful