AppleStore Ginza has the mythical Lacie Thunderbolt Little Big Disk in stock. After much trouble, I bought one home and to may dismay, there was no plug-and-play of the device.

Yes, the Little Big Disk had to be connected to the wall for power.

Now I know why is Apple selling a 2-meter Thunderbolt cable: so you can have the false sense of mobility as long as you are within the 2-meter radius of the drive.

Apple, whatever happened to “elegance”?

I cannot help but not notice that there was no mention of Amazon or Kindle in the keynote address delivered by Phil Schiller at the January 19 Apple Education Event in New York. And also curiously absent at the keynote, was desktop publishing software giant Adobe, as Adobe’s InDesign will be affected by what Apple would release.

Apple obviously know where they stand — the iPad is in a class of its own — and it didn’t need to throw mud at others to prove the point. And it’s about education after all, or is it?

On that note, I cannot help but also think about what other things we can do with iBooks Author, the free authoring tool Apple has released shortly after the keynote where we can use to produce interactive multimedia products:
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Google is software company. Its business model is profit through Ad delivery.

Relying on a software company to deliver world class hardware such as a mobile phone that rivals the iPhone is akin to ordering Pizza in an English fine dining restaurant.

This ICS “upgrade” is a joke.

If you haven’t been following the digital transformation of the Chinese media, here’s some news for you: a newspaper in Beijing has developed a tablet that will carry its content exclusively.

The 7in device runs on Android and a custom OS. Funded mostly by the Government, this tablet doesn’t need a real ROI to succeed.

The Chinese media academias have nothing but praises for this move (but of course).

Though industry pundits are still arguing about Android’s dominance of the smartphone market, I seriously think the dust has settled: there are the diehards and there are the wannabes.

The diehards will never leave their platform of choice, and the wannabes will be buying the latest gadget that hits the shelf.

With China’s Xunlei and iQiyi IPTV services gearing up to take over the world, Tuduo and Youku seems to be eyeing at the huge consumer market that used to be dominated by license-carrying broadcast stations. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for once the Dragon from the East maybe heading off towards the battleground Apple’s iTV and Google TV is prepping.

Wait for it, for this is going to get bloody.

Don’t understand how people like David Gewirtz who writes for ZDNet can get it all wrong.
Fire is a book reader. Comparing the Fire to an iPad is plain stupid, and the comment about Flash?

But, the real fact is, Flash is not dead. It’s baked into many web sites, and I’m talking about real web sites, not just silly casual gamer sites.

That is denial in action.

You can argue that Android is pretty solid now, but that’s after years of iteration. At first, it basically sucked. Chrome has been great, but it now seems to be getting more buggy, not less, over time. Google Voice? Decent, but not what it should be. Google+? Not bad, but issues. Google TV? Yeah. Google Music? Ha. Google Wave? Sigh. Etc, etc, etc.

~ MG Siegler via daringfireball.

The only Google product that seems to be working for me, is Gmail. My HTC Hero is no match even to my 3-year old iPhone 3G.

Before embarking, he’d looked at his sister Patty, then for a long time at his children, then at his life’s partner, Laurene, and then over their shoulders past them.

Steve’s final words were:

OH WOW. OH WOW. OH WOW.

- Steve’s Sister, Mona Simpson.

I knew if someone like Steve chooses to resign, some writers will climb out of whatever holes they have been hiding and do a piece about Steve’s failures.

Well, if you are so great, why haven’t I see anything from you?

Strange people strive in the strangest times.

RIM China sorta confirms the existence of a 4G version of their Playbook. Believable?

I think this is a case of too little too late.