I was very lucky this morning to run into Ted and a couple of his friends in front of the new Shibuya Apple Store, because one of them took it upon himself to get in line for the Grand Opening at half past five in morning (and photo-blogged about it from his mobile phone, unfortunately to Mixi, so that I cannot link to it), and the rest of us joined him there at more humane hours. So we started out much closer to the pole than what Ingo and me had back in Ginza. This is probably not the most social thing to do, especially since the number of free T-shirts is limited (I got one, and also a coupon for a one-song-download from the iTunes Music Store Japan, which has been launched earlier this week), but did a little shopping to deserve the freebies: a Griffin iMic (for Skype, more on that later) and the new Mighty Mouse. Speaking of Mighty Mouse, hands-on demonstrations were limited to a few PowerBooks, because all the desktop Macs in the store were Bluetooth models and the Mouse only comes in a USB version. Side question: I have always wondered how Bluetooth works in a room filled with dozens of machines? How does the mouse figure out which one it is supposed to work with ? What stops you from typing into your neighbour's files?