Archive for January 2009
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Product design and manufacturing in a global world: Japan vs America - MacBook Air
Recently I came across this article which sheds a bit of light on Japanese manufacturing methodology vs Apple’s. I think it’s far easier for the Japanese engineers to critique the crappy Taiwanese construction rather than to create their own new device from scratch. But it’s too bad though that Apple doesn’t have a bit more [...]
Japan #2 social network Gree worth $1.2 billion? Are you kidding?
Some of you may have heard of Gree, Japan’s #2 social networking site (SNS). (No, I don’t know how they chose the name! Is it a Japanese-English version of “Glee”? Maybe someone knows?) About 4 or 5 years ago I joined after getting invitations from a number of my friends, who were also using the [...]