The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple is doing extremely well in Japan. So well, in fact, that Japan is now one of Apple's fastest growing markets.
One factor which has helped boost Apple sales is the company's recent iPhone deal with DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile carrier. Frustrated with subscriber churn on account of not carrying the iPhone for so long, DoCoMo recently began offering attractive deals to bring in new customers and keep existing customers from defecting to rival carriers like KDDI and SoftBank. In turn, these competing carriers were forced to offer consumer-friendly deals of their own. The end result is that the iPhone in Japan is now a more attractive value proposition than e
