Japan's antitrust watchdog Thursday unveiled draft guidelines for the law governing smartphone software services of U.S. tech giants Google LLC and Apple Inc., aiming to promote competition from smaller firms.
    • piyuv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      11 hours ago

      Yes! It’s good they’re doing this. It would be better if they weren’t letting Nintendo brick homebrewed consoles.

      • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
        2·
        7 hours ago

        Japan was the first one to prohibit tinkering with game saves and consoles, they aren’t going to revert it now.

  • oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    1531·
    1 day ago

    If there’s one thing Japan loves, it is economical competition. There are like 40 different ways to pay at a shop, it’s absurd.

    • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
      4·
      10 hours ago

      Innovation and competition at it’s peak: You get to choose the color of your noose.

      But (presumably) no cash or crypto because someone has to take a 3% cut.

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      21·
      11 hours ago

      That’s probably because toxic corporate culture (we-ell, one can sometimes find contributions of heroes from Japan into FOSS projects, so maybe not so toxic, especially when you look at NetBSD) they already have, so they simply can’t afford breaking market laws, not in the slightest.

      The rest think they can, which is wrong.

      The economic stagnation in numbers is regrettable, though. I would prefer countries like Japan to grow (not on the map, I mean playing tall). And cultures.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        21·
        1 day ago

        This used to be the case 15 years ago, but unless you go to some tiny independently owned place, you can usually pay with credit card or suica. If not, then with one of those QR code payment options. I rarely carry cash anymore.

        • kalleboo@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          12 hours ago

          Yeah when I went over my bank statements for last year, I only went to an ATM a single time in the whole year. Mostly only need cash for stuff like parking

        • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
          11·
          1 day ago

          Idk, I wasn’t there myself. My friend went there multiple times though (last time before corona) and he said cash was often/usually needed.

          • Slaxis@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
            1·
            12 hours ago

            How long ago was that? Even 7-8 years ago it was more true but it’s changed quite a bit in recent years

            • kurcatovium@lemm.eeEnglish
              1·
              5 hours ago

              It’s about that time frame. He went there few times between 2012 and maybe 2020, or year before coronavirus.

    • EggyheadEnglish
      3·
      1 day ago

      That Q+ looking one near the bottom left is how Apple Pay came to be in Japan.

    • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      1 day ago

      That’s hardly a bad thing unless you can’t use the most common way (e.g. paying by credit/debit card) in shops.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Is there some science to what facilitates common standards vs. dotzens of islands? Convenience of the user is only one factor (if at all), see printers.

  • psyc@lemmy.worldEnglish
    892·
    1 day ago

    Does that mean I can get a 3rd party eShop on my Nintendo Switch? 😆