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So there is no GPhone as rumors have suggested. There is a new open mobile phone platform called Android, and supported by major players from across the wireless industry and across continents!! This is a great move. They finally realized they could stop reinventing the system engineering of the phones every 6 months (in Japan) and instead focus and doing cool things with them.

This dumb video report by Michael Kanellos proves how lame Americans and their Journalists are. Does EVERYBODY just get their information about the world from crappy guidebooks?! Give me a break!
He starts out in Shibuya, rambling about how futuristic Tokyo is, but come on dude, people live there, it’s real, all you’re looking at is advertising in one of the world’s biggest cities! You get the same stuff in NY and London.

Next he’s off to darling of the guidebooks, Akihabara (except that nobody actually calls it that, it’s Akiba). Only tourists go there. It’s just like Fisherman’s Wharf in San Francisco. Truth is, you can buy all the same consumer electronics anywhere in Tokyo. It’s been that way for years. Don’t waste your time in Akiba. If you’re looking to buy or sell large lots of OEM components, then Akiba may be a good place to start… on the back streets in offices. But these days, even that is questionable. B2B online is real in Japan too.

I wish people would stop putting out such repetitive, derivative crap on Tokyo. It’s not that way. I lived there for 5 years, believe me. Wonderful city, but it’s not the Blade Runner set you like to imagine it to be. It’s just a big city with lots of people.