How Steve Jobs Got the iPhone Into Japan

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Breaking into Japan was no cheap trick. To get there, Steve Jobs took a chance on a self-made Japanese billionaire who had a crude drawing of an iPod phone and no mobile carrier to speak of. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son recounted how he scored the deal to become the iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan in a television interview with Charlie Rose that aired this week.

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Breaking into Japan was no cheap trick. To get there, Steve Jobs took a chance on a self-made Japanese billionaire who had a crude drawing of an iPod phone and no mobile carrier to speak of. SoftBank CEO Masayoshi Son recounted how he scored the deal to become the <a rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2010-08-23/softbank-rival-to-offer-sim-card-that-erodes-iphone-exclusivity-in-japan.html">iPhone's exclusive carrier in Japan</a> in a television interview with Charlie Rose that aired this week.