• oce 🐆@jlai.luEnglish
    1 year

    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.

      • k0e3@lemmy.caEnglish
        1 year

        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
          1 year

          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
          1 year

          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 year

            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 year

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

      • WalnutLum@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1 year

        Nah you can’t even use cash in a lot of post offices now.

          • dubyakay@lemmy.caEnglish
            1 year

            It’s almost like Japanese boomers keep maintaining the status quo at the expense of younger generations.

    • sadTruth@lemmy.hogru.chEnglish
      1 year

      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.

      • GoldenQuetzal@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        Surprisingly a lot of Japan is cash only. Stores like this also have cash inserts built in.

    • Matriks404@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

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

    • Eggyhead@lemmings.worldEnglish
      1 year

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

    • Toes♀@ani.socialEnglish
      1 year

      With that many options, it’s your bad if the card doesn’t work. Wow haha

    • rottingleaf@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      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.

    • MonkderVierte@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 year

      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
    1 year

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

    • mrbubblesort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      I wish, but this seems specifically aimed at smartphones only. However, this could open the door for Nintendo to make their own eshop for Android or Apple, and I suspect that’s what the gov is going for because it would directly benefit Japanese companies at the expense of foreign ones.

        • theangryseal@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1 year

          They do make games for phones though. I haven’t heard of any in a while but I remember some dust being kicked up about Mario coming to smartphones about a decade ago.

          I’m on my phone now actually. Let me look.

          Yep.

    • piyuv@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

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

      • arararagi@ani.socialEnglish
        1 year

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