Apple Store Ginza – Chinese iPhone resellers hire homeless to wait in line
Both of these were further back in the line (around a block and a half from the...
Akihabara shop selling a gold 128GB iPhone 6 Plus for 169,800円
That’s over $1,700 US at todays exchange rate. This is still several hundred dollars below what this same...
No 4.92″ Poptarts :(
I tried ordering the 4.92″ Poptart but that thing is non-existent in the Apple Store…
Alibaba (BABA) IPO prices at the top end of the range
$68. Begins trading today. Don’t have any IPO shares so I’m just going to sit this out until...
Apple’s New iPhones Seen Fueling Switch From Android
via Bloomberg. Samsung Mobile sort of reminds me of Microsoft and the whole Wintel ecosystem where as far...
Tokyo Geek Girl gets her 6 Plus
After nearly a week of waiting outside the Ginza Apple Store, Tokyo “geek” girl and Ustream personality Ayano...
Lot of Chinese nationals standing in lines at various Apple Stores
I was just channel flipping and CNBC (which I normally do not watch), was showing a clip of...
The one handed argument
One thing I noticed in many iPhone 6/6 Plus reviews was the ability to use them one handed....
iPhone 6/6 Plus pre-orders top 4 million in first 24 hours
http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2014/09/15Apple-Announces-Record-Pre-orders-for-iPhone-6-iPhone-6-Plus-Top-Four-Million-in-First-24-Hours.html They didn’t hint anywhere that they got the product mix wrong as what had happened when they...
Apple Pay details leaking out
Financial Times has some interesting details about Apple Pay in a report entitled, Apple Wages War on the...
Why it “pays” to be geinojin in Japan
Tokyo court gives Aska suspended prison term. Chage and Aska are a popular singing duo in Japan (as well...