But that doesn't mean you'll be stuck buying high-end products.
It took a long time to take Japanese brand names and turn them into high-end products.
Traditional smoked fish is a high-end product sought after by restaurants.
People don't really consume the high-end products as in other countries.
The term has stuck and is now used generally to refer to any high-end product.
What one person may find comfortable, another may not, even among the high-end products, he said.
And in fact, there were differences even between these two high-end products.
"But Sony makes money with high-end products, so they have to continue making a brand name for themselves by expanding their product line."
Even for 2003, the Matrix phone was by no means a high-end product.
Competitors followed suit, and by the end of the year most companies were offering a version in their high-end products.
