Thefigures seem to show that there was a quick uptake (most likely by existing iPhone owners) and that it has now fallen back down. The iPhone isn't a popular phone in Japan, it has even less features then what the Japanese would consider Featurephones, or even dumbphones. It doesn't even have a chance of stacking up to the feature list of smartphones in Japan, and in Japan all that seems to sell a handset is the feature list, not ease of use.

And how could it not look like one? It has a large screen that makes up most of the device, which usually results in a glass front. On any touch device, and to make the thing fit together it needs a bezel that they've happened to make chrome. If it had a circular button below the screen I could see your point but by your logic every rectangular touch screen device with a shiny bezel is a rip off of apple.

So everything with a chrome border must be a copy then? Because a bezel is kind of required, you know to make the thing fit together and once you said that everything with a chrome bezel must be a copy of apple, well then everything with a matte bezel must now be a clone of the zune... where exactly does this lead? Nowhere good, why can't people just try to make good looking products without have 'copycat' screamed at them from every direction. Feel free to call a cheap knockoffs a 'copy' because that's what it is, but can we please leave that out when someone comes along with an obviously interesting product that some thought has been put into?

Because most people buy netbooks for the basic stuff, so email, internet browsing, video/music playback. And I think most users would be willing to sacrifice x86/x64 to get much better battery life, because most of the stuff they want to do doesn't require/isn't helped along by them.

I don't think Apple will be too interested until general consumers know the differences and start demanding players with OLED screens, because otherwise it costs a lot of money and may not bring a great return.

It does seem likely, as the press shots show Brown and Orange UI's, but they're still both odd choices for press shots as I'd assume, people would be looking for something quite 'modern' so silver/white to match the overall design of the player.

Why, oh why did they choose to make the primary colour of the UI brown?

@ Paul
so who to believe, you with one .png image labeled 'att-evil' or a respected iPhone developer who said Apple asked him to provide refunds to those who bought the app? And we're not criticizing Apple at every turn, I think the iPhone is a pretty good product. However their app store policies are kept a closely guarded secret if they even have any, because with some apps it seems unlikely that they have any rules whatsoever except 'It can't compete with us or AT&T'. And why are they even allowed to remove apps because they compete with Apple/AT&T? I would've hoped that they would have got slapped down for that the first time it happened. But competition is GOOD for consumers, and Apple/AT&T aren't providing a competitive platform by rejecting any app they suddenly decide they don't like.

@ Paul Chapel
Even if Apple had nothing to do with the rejection (which I doubt) how does that absolve them of responsibility? They still removed the app, ordered the developers to refund money and offered no straightforward explanations and it's their closed system that's to blame for corporations being able to effectively monitor and control the amount of competition they receive in the mobile market. It's sickening really the Apple/AT&T should be able to reject apps in the first place without a clear and PUBLIC structure of what they will/won't accept in their app store, because right now they're using their secretive policies to stop competitors coming into the market.

@ Ryujin
Why? Again thanks to the industry's efforts services at hiding your online activities have lowered in price/become free and become so simple that a monkey could figure it out with 5 minutes.