What I found out was that proposing a plan is not a way to get things done. If you already made the product and present it, it would go.
Typical example is the case with Panasonic air conditioner products. The company started advertising the product with a very nice feature. They can be turned on with cell phone calls.
It would be nice to come back home to a cool, or warm room. With these products, with cell phone calls, you can warm or cool the room before you come back home. It is a cool feature and a good selling point indeed.
Reaction to the new feature of the products by the government was appalling. And what the company did right before started out selling the products was somewhat puzzling. It went ahead and asked the government for permissions. The government defined the product as 'remotely controllable electronics appliances that use alternate current'.
There are laws in Japan that prohibit 'remotely controllable electronics appliances'. There are limitation to what products can be sold on the market according to the laws. According to the laws, you can not sell remotely controllable products via electromagnetic waves that use alternate current. The laws were written in 60's, ans have not been revised since.
The company removed the feature from the products and from the products' ads. The products no longer can be started via cell phone calls. A compromised feature to stop the products via cell phone calls was permitted at this time. Now the products were sold with just the feature to be turned off via cell phone calls.
To get it recognized requires more than its value, of course. Most likely, it is as if new concepts induce more resentment than approval.
Let us hope the voices of people will reach those who are in charge to come up with a solution -- to revise the laws or to change the interpretation of them, keep the 'face' of the government, the company, and the developers, and people can enjoy the products with the new and cool features that can change the ways of our life.
Looking at economies collapsed around the globe and talking about $7 trillion fiscal cliff -- what else should we be talking about?
Typical example is the case with Panasonic air conditioner products. The company started advertising the product with a very nice feature. They can be turned on with cell phone calls.
It would be nice to come back home to a cool, or warm room. With these products, with cell phone calls, you can warm or cool the room before you come back home. It is a cool feature and a good selling point indeed.
Reaction to the new feature of the products by the government was appalling. And what the company did right before started out selling the products was somewhat puzzling. It went ahead and asked the government for permissions. The government defined the product as 'remotely controllable electronics appliances that use alternate current'.
There are laws in Japan that prohibit 'remotely controllable electronics appliances'. There are limitation to what products can be sold on the market according to the laws. According to the laws, you can not sell remotely controllable products via electromagnetic waves that use alternate current. The laws were written in 60's, ans have not been revised since.
The company removed the feature from the products and from the products' ads. The products no longer can be started via cell phone calls. A compromised feature to stop the products via cell phone calls was permitted at this time. Now the products were sold with just the feature to be turned off via cell phone calls.
To get it recognized requires more than its value, of course. Most likely, it is as if new concepts induce more resentment than approval.
Let us hope the voices of people will reach those who are in charge to come up with a solution -- to revise the laws or to change the interpretation of them, keep the 'face' of the government, the company, and the developers, and people can enjoy the products with the new and cool features that can change the ways of our life.
Looking at economies collapsed around the globe and talking about $7 trillion fiscal cliff -- what else should we be talking about?