“And then there’s the matter of compartmentalization. A large portion of Japanese citizens live with only a cellphone as their computing device – not a personal computer, said Hideshi Hamaguchi, a concept creator and chief operating officer of LUNARR. And the problem with the iPhone is it depends on a computer for syncing media and running software updates via iTunes.”

Link: Why the Japanese Hate the iPhone (wired.com)

Update: Nobuyuki Hayashi argues he was misquoted in the article (thanks Bruce)