My jaw just dropped as I was reading the news feeds - iTunes is now available in Japan! (As in the music store downloads). This is amazing because previously Sony and other music companies wouldn't let them do business in Japan because it would take away from their market share. So instead of being able to recoup some money from consumers, they haven't been getting much of anything because everyone illegally downloads or goes to Tsutaya (CD and video rental) and illegally copies any CD they want.
Anyway, this is huge news. People have been complaining about the lack of downloadable (legal) music here for a long time. Going rate for a song is 150 yen and albums look like they are 1500 yen. The albums are quite reasonable actually. Individual songs are considerably more expensive (50%) than the US's 99 cents, but that's ok.
In other exciting Mac news, Apple just introduced a two-button mouse. This after years of saying they never would. I have a touch pad and use a lot of keyboard commands, so I won't get one, but it looks cool. Apparently the scroll wheel is not so much a wheel as a multi-directional, um, thing. You can move diagonally, across, etc with it (if I understood the info about it).
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