Apple in the Ginza

The Apple store in Ginza, like many of the other big brands, is a building. And it's a building that definitely matches its product line. The silver skin with the white glowing Apple logo, just like the PowerBooks!

Inside, the building features glass elevators; REAL glass elevators! Watching the counterweight rising and falling, and the gears closing the door was a treat. Like how Apple fought against two-button mouses for years, Apple lifts do not have buttons! They just go up, and then go down, and then go up, and down... stopping at every floor. Who needs buttons! Maybe they'll relent and introduce lift buttons in a few years time like how they recently introduced Mighty Mouse.

Note that Mighty Mouse has a smooth outer shell with no physically distinct left/right mouse buttons. The mouse detects which button is pressed because it can sense which part of the mouse was touched. That's the problem... to right click, you need to lift up your left finger. Otherwise it will default as a left click. This also means you cannot do a "left+right" click. Not so mighty afterall!