Supposedly this means Japanese makers find it difficult to develop saleable handsets for foreign markets.
The PS3, by contrasy, used the infamous Cell processor and was notoriously difficult to develop games on.
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And because these figures are a bit iffy, it makes it more difficult to develop economic growth policies.
Planning is complicated by the fact that the far-flung sprawl of the population makes it difficult to develop any cohesive blueprint.
Automatic or independent fiscal-policy adjustment (on top of so-called automatic stabilisers that operate in any case) may be difficult to develop.
They can find it difficult to develop an appreciation of the value of money because they have never been short of it.
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Note that none of them are difficult to develop in your life.
At the same time, new antibiotics were becoming increasingly difficult to develop.
What is needed, but is extremely difficult to develop, is a way to recognize the character of a virus and differentiate it from normal system activity.
And just as the cost of making faster and faster silicon chips is rising exponentially, so is it getting more and more difficult to develop new drugs.
Micro Focus CTO McGill said most of the customers who were surveyed like the reliability of the mainframe, but they find it difficult to develop on mainframes at the pace which business demands.
While the pro-euro camp show every sign of taking on the iron discipline of Tony Blair's New Labour, the antis are riven by doctrinal disputes which will make it difficult to develop a single, coherent message.
He said the theory was sound, but it would probably prove very difficult to develop a machine which could be of practical benefit to patients, not least because liver cells did not survive for very long outside the body.
This makes them difficult to develop.
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And I think it would be very difficult to even develop a potential approach to mind uploading without answering these questions.
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Instead all of the disturbance falls on outsiders, who have a hard time finding a job and landowners who find it difficult to profitably develop new areas.
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As I wrote last year, Isentress was a very difficult drug to develop, requiring more than a decade of tenacious advocacy on the part of a Merck scientist named Daria Hazuda.
It's an astonishingly difficult task to develop a ship capable of taking man into deep space and returning him safely, which is why so much effort is being put into Orion's planning and construction.
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Additionally, Symbian is proving to be an increasingly difficult environment in which to develop to meet the continuously expanding consumer requirements, leading to slowness in product development and also creating a disadvantage when we seek to take advantage of new hardware platforms.
Any action to prejudice the interests of the American oil companies, said a State Department spokesman, would make it difficult for Libya to develop the kind of relations with America that it claims to want.
It also wouldn't be difficult for Apple to develop a software-hardware combination that would let its computers record TV shows, much like Hewlett-Packard 's (nyse: HPQ - news - people ) Media Center PC already does.
This could make it difficult for EA to successfully develop the same version of Medal of Honor for both Windows 8 and Windows Phone 8.
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It is much more difficult to teach and to develop.
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Drafted in the second round (No. 57 overall) in 2009 from Utah, Kruger, who was a quarterback in high school, was slow to develop and initially found it difficult to get playing time on a star-studded Ravens team with talented linebackers and pass rushers.
The resulting mutual transparency inspires a confidence and trust that is much more difficult and time-consuming to develop through other means.
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In addition to the simple education of users, Adams advises businesses to develop clear policies governing user-owned devices to avoid difficult confrontations with staff if a device is lost, stolen or compromised.
With HPV it is even more difficult, because cervical cancer takes years to develop.
But because everyone's bones get thinner as they age, it is difficult to know in advance which patients will develop full-fledged bone disease.
For Russia to continue to grow and develop it really is going to have to make a number of difficult, complicated, and expensive reforms to some very basic parts of its economic structure.
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He said it was difficult to estimate the true effect because cancer may develop only years after exposure to air pollution.
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