影のない場所、愛が溢れる光

Apple Computer co-founder and CEO Steve Jobs introduces the all-new flat-panel iMac computer during his keynote speech at the MacWorld Expo in January 2002.

By Simon Garfield, Special to CNN
October 6, 2011 -- Updated 0307 GMT (1107 HKT)


Editor's note: Simon Garfield is the author of "JUST MY TYPE: A Book About Fonts", published by Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group USA.

London (CNN) -- The news about the passing of Steve Jobs comes one day after a new iPhone was announced, a launch that took place without a man with a black polo neck presiding. And still, somehow, Steve Jobs dominated the proceedings. These last few months, as his illness kept him away from the office, it's been clear that we owe him for more than just upping the pixels on the phone camera and an ever-faster processor.

Even non-Mac believers -- even anti-Mac folk -- will acknowledge begrudgingly that he's been an invincible tech inspiration over the years. Simple really: much of the time he led and others followed. But there is something more fundamental to thank Jobs for -- the very screen text you're reading now, the very fact that we can express ourselves digitally with emotion, clarity and variety.

Steve Jobs was the first to give us a real choice of fonts, and made Type Gods of us all.

Steve Jobs didn't invent typefaces, of course; I think Johannes Gutenberg may have had a stronger claim to that in Germany when he used his first carved letters in the 1440s. But Jobs realized their value like no one else engaged in personal computers in the early 1980s, and suddenly we were no longer dependent on professional printers, graphic designers and those long dark nights of the soul with rub-down letters.

And who does Jobs himself thank for this advance? He credits the people who made his academic life untenable at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Without them, he might not have dropped out. If he hadn't dropped out, he may not have discovered calligraphy.

"Throughout the campus," he remembered at an address to students at Stanford in 2005, '"every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphied." So, having dropped out and finding himself a free agent, he decided to take a class in this art. "I learned about serif and sans serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating."

At the time, the student dropout believed that little he had learned would find a practical application in his life. But things changed. Ten years after college Jobs designed his first Mac, and it came with something unprecedented -- a wide choice of fonts. Originally he hoped to do this on the cheap, and by enlisting the designer Susan Kare he created new bitmap designs that were available in a range of styles and sizes. The original thought was to name them after stops on a local Philadelphia train route close to where Kare had grown up, but Jobs then plumped for the more accessible notion of cities he loved: London, Chicago, Geneva, Toronto, Venice, Los Angeles, and San Francisco.

These names had the added advantage of reflecting the typographical character of the cities in question, so London had an old-fashioned serif "blackletter" feel that Dickens might have favored, Venice had an artisanal script feel, and Geneva had a cleaner Swiss sans-serif look. For some reason yet to be fully justified, the San Francisco font appeared to be made up of odd letters torn from a newspaper, a digital ransom note. Soon there would be more familiar names added to the mix, including Times New Roman and Helvetica.

So this was the beginning of something -- a seismic shift in our everyday relationship with letters and with type. An innovation that, within a decade or so, would place the word "font" -- previously a piece of technical language limited to the design and printing trade -- in the vocabulary of every computer user.

You can't easily find most of Jobs's original typefaces these days, which may be just as well: they are coarsely pixilated and cumbersome to manipulate (significantly, the typeface that Apple used in its early promotional advertisements -- remember 'Think Differently'? -- were in a modern version of good old Garamond, a French style from the 16th century.) But the ability to change fonts on our computers seemed like technology from another planet.

Before the Macintosh of 1984, most primitive word processors offered up one dull face, often on a green screen, and good luck trying to italicize it.

Now there was a choice of alphabets that did their best to recreate something we were used to from the real world. IBM and Microsoft would soon do their best to copy Apple's lead, while domestic printers (a novel concept at the time) began to be marketed not only on speed but for the variety of their fonts.

And here's the thing. Just as we celebrate the new iPhone or the new Kindle, let's observe how primitive is our choice of fonts on these machines, and how far they have to go to catch up with the past.

The Notes app on the phone has three choices, and one of them is '"Marker Felt"; the Kindle has a few more, but the choice is still in single figures. Could it be that the one thing that Jobs recognized almost 30 years ago -- the absolute pleasure of the shape of letters -- is being forgotten in a race for miniaturization, speed and the relentless pursuit of gadgetry newness?

By Brandon Griggs, CNN
October 6, 2011 -- Updated 0312 GMT (1112 HKT)


(CNN) -- Steve Jobs, the visionary in the black turtleneck who co-founded Apple in a Silicon Valley garage, built it into the world's leading tech company and led a mobile-computing revolution with wildly popular devices such as the iPhone, died Wednesday. He was 56.

The hard-driving executive pioneered the concept of the personal computer and of navigating them by clicking onscreen images with a mouse. In more recent years, he introduced the iPod portable music player, the iPhone and the iPad tablet -- all of which changed how we consume content in the digital age.
Fortune: Ten ways Steve Jobs changed the world
His friends and Apple fans on Wednesday night mourned the passing of a tech titan.

"Steve's brilliance, passion and energy were the source of countless innovations that enrich and improve all of our lives," Apple said in a statement. "The world is immeasurably better because of Steve."
See reactions from Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and many others
More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.


More than one pundit, praising Jobs' ability to transform entire industries with his inventions, called him a modern-day Leonardo Da Vinci.
"Steve Jobs is one of the great innovators in the history of modern capitalism," New York Times columnist Joe Nocera said in August. "His intuition has been phenomenal over the years."

Jobs' death, while dreaded by Apple's legions of fans, was not unexpected. He had battled cancer for years, took a medical leave from Apple in January and stepped down as chief executive in August because he could "no longer meet (his) duties and expectations."

Born February 24, 1955, and then adopted, Jobs grew up in Cupertino, California -- which would become home to Apple's headquarters -- and showed an early interest in electronics. As a teenager, he phoned William Hewlett, president of Hewlett-Packard, to request parts for a school project. He got them, along with an offer of a summer job at HP.


Jobs dropped out of Oregon's Reed College after one semester, although he returned to audit a class in calligraphy, which he says influenced Apple's graceful, minimalist aesthetic. He quit one of his first jobs, designing video games for Atari, to backpack across India and take psychedelic drugs. Those experiences, Jobs said later, shaped his creative vision.

"You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future," he told Stanford University graduates during a commencement speech in 2005. "You have to trust in something: your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life."

View a time line of Steve Jobs' work
While at HP, Jobs befriended Steve Wozniak, who impressed him with his skill at assembling electronic components. The two later joined a Silicon Valley computer hobbyists club, and when he was 21, Jobs teamed with Wozniak and two other men to launch Apple Computer Inc.

It's long been Silicon Valley legend: Jobs and Wozniak built their first commercial product, the Apple 1, in Jobs' parents' garage in 1976. Jobs sold his Volkswagen van to help finance the venture. The primitive computer, priced at $666.66, had no keyboard or display, and customers had to assemble it themselves.

The following year, Apple unveiled the Apple II computer at the inaugural West Coast Computer Faire. The machine was a hit, and the personal computing revolution was under way.

Jobs was among the first computer engineers to recognize the appeal of the mouse and the graphical interface, which let users operate computers by clicking on images instead of writing text.

Apple's pioneering Macintosh computer launched in early 1984 with a now-iconic, Orwellian-themed Super Bowl ad. The boxy beige Macintosh sold well, but the demanding Jobs clashed frequently with colleagues, and in 1986, he was ousted from Apple after a power struggle.

Then came a 10-year hiatus during which he founded NeXT Computer, whose pricey, cube-shaped computer workstations never caught on with consumers.
Jobs had more success when he bought Pixar Animation Studios from George Lucas before the company made it big with "Toy Story." Jobs brought the same marketing skill to Pixar that he became known for at Apple. His brief but emotional pitch for "Finding Nemo," for example, was a masterful bit of succinct storytelling.

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In 1996, Apple bought NeXT, returning Jobs to the then-struggling company he had co-founded. Within a year, he was running Apple again -- older and perhaps wiser but no less of a perfectionist. And in 2001, he took the stage to introduce the original iPod, the little white device that transformed portable music and kick-started Apple's furious comeback.
Thus began one of the most remarkable second acts in the history of business. Over the next decade, Jobs wowed launch-event audiences, and consumers, with one game-changing hit after another: iTunes (2003), the iPhone (2007), the App Store (2008), and the iPad (2010).

Review Jobs' top moments as a showman

Observers marveled at Jobs' skills as a pitchman, his ability to inspire godlike devotion among Apple "fanboys" (and scorn from PC fans) and his "one more thing" surprise announcements. Time after time, he sold people on a product they didn't know they needed until he invented it. And all this on an official annual salary of $1.

He also built a reputation as a hard-driving, mercurial and sometimes difficult boss who oversaw almost every detail of Apple's products and rejected prototypes that didn't meet his exacting standards.
By the late 2000s, his once-renegade tech company, the David to Microsoft's Goliath, was entrenched at the uppermost tier of American business. Apple now operates more than 300 retail stores in 11 countries. The company has sold more than 275 million iPods, 100 million iPhones and 25 million iPads worldwide.

Jobs' climb to the top was complete in summer 2011, when Apple listed more cash reserves than the U.S. Treasury and even briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world's most valuable company.

CNNMoney.com: Apple stock under Jobs

But Jobs' health problems sometimes cast a shadow over his company's success. In 2004, he announced to his employees that he was being treated for pancreatic cancer. He lost weight and appeared unusually gaunt at keynote speeches to Apple developers, spurring concerns about his health and fluctuations in the company's stock price. One wire service accidentally published Jobs' obituary.

Jobs had a secret liver transplant in 2009 in Tennessee during a six-month medical leave of absence from Apple. He took another medical leave in January this year. Perhaps mindful of his legacy, he cooperated on his first authorized biography, scheduled to be published by Simon & Schuster in November.

Jobs is survived by his wife of 20 years, Laurene, and four children, including one from a prior relationship.
He always spoke with immense pride about what he and his engineers accomplished at Apple.

"Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do," he told the Stanford grads in 2005.
"If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on."

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Editor’s note: On June 12, 2005, Steve Jobs gave a commencement speech at Stanford University that summed up his life lessons. In memoriam, Business 360 publishes the full text of that speech.

I am honored to be with you today at your commencement from one of the finest universities in the world. I never graduated from college. Truth be told, this is the closest I've ever gotten to a college graduation. Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That's it. No big deal. Just three stories.

The first story is about connecting the dots.

I dropped out of Reed College after the first 6 months, but then stayed around as a drop-in for another 18 months or so before I really quit. So why did I drop out?

It started before I was born. My biological mother was a young, unwed college graduate student, and she decided to put me up for adoption. She felt very strongly that I should be adopted by college graduates, so everything was all set for me to be adopted at birth by a lawyer and his wife. Except that when I popped out they decided at the last minute that they really wanted a girl. So my parents, who were on a waiting list, got a call in the middle of the night asking: "We have an unexpected baby boy; do you want him?" They said: "Of course." My biological mother later found out that my mother had never graduated from college and that my father had never graduated from high school. She refused to sign the final adoption papers. She only relented a few months later when my parents promised that I would someday go to college.

And 17 years later I did go to college. But I naively chose a college that was almost as expensive as Stanford, and all of my working-class parents' savings were being spent on my college tuition. After six months, I couldn't see the value in it. I had no idea what I wanted to do with my life and no idea how college was going to help me figure it out. And here I was spending all of the money my parents had saved their entire life. So I decided to drop out and trust that it would all work out OK. It was pretty scary at the time, but looking back it was one of the best decisions I ever made. The minute I dropped out I could stop taking the required classes that didn't interest me, and begin dropping in on the ones that looked interesting.

It wasn't all romantic. I didn't have a dorm room, so I slept on the floor in friends' rooms, I returned coke bottles for the 5¢ deposits to buy food with, and I would walk the 7 miles across town every Sunday night to get one good meal a week at the Hare Krishna temple. I loved it. And much of what I stumbled into by following my curiosity and intuition turned out to be priceless later on. Let me give you one example:

Reed College at that time offered perhaps the best calligraphy instruction in the country. Throughout the campus every poster, every label on every drawer, was beautifully hand calligraphed. Because I had dropped out and didn't have to take the normal classes, I decided to take a calligraphy class to learn how to do this. I learned about serif and san serif typefaces, about varying the amount of space between different letter combinations, about what makes great typography great. It was beautiful, historical, artistically subtle in a way that science can't capture, and I found it fascinating.

None of this had even a hope of any practical application in my life. But ten years later, when we were designing the first Macintosh computer, it all came back to me. And we designed it all into the Mac. It was the first computer with beautiful typography. If I had never dropped in on that single course in college, the Mac would have never had multiple typefaces or proportionally spaced fonts. And since Windows just copied the Mac, it's likely that no personal computer would have them. If I had never dropped out, I would have never dropped in on this calligraphy class, and personal computers might not have the wonderful typography that they do. Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards ten years later.

Again, you can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. You have to trust in something — your gut, destiny, life, karma, whatever. This approach has never let me down, and it has made all the difference in my life.

My second story is about love and loss.

I was lucky — I found what I loved to do early in life. Woz and I started Apple in my parents garage when I was 20. We worked hard, and in 10 years Apple had grown from just the two of us in a garage into a $2 billion company with over 4000 employees. We had just released our finest creation — the Macintosh — a year earlier, and I had just turned 30. And then I got fired. How can you get fired from a company you started? Well, as Apple grew we hired someone who I thought was very talented to run the company with me, and for the first year or so things went well. But then our visions of the future began to diverge and eventually we had a falling out. When we did, our Board of Directors sided with him. So at 30 I was out. And very publicly out. What had been the focus of my entire adult life was gone, and it was devastating.

I really didn't know what to do for a few months. I felt that I had let the previous generation of entrepreneurs down – that I had dropped the baton as it was being passed to me. I met with David Packard and Bob Noyce and tried to apologize for screwing up so badly. I was a very public failure, and I even thought about running away from the valley. But something slowly began to dawn on me — I still loved what I did. The turn of events at Apple had not changed that one bit. I had been rejected, but I was still in love. And so I decided to start over.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

During the next five years, I started a company named NeXT, another company named Pixar, and fell in love with an amazing woman who would become my wife. Pixar went on to create the worlds first computer animated feature film, Toy Story, and is now the most successful animation studio in the world. In a remarkable turn of events, Apple bought NeXT, I returned to Apple, and the technology we developed at NeXT is at the heart of Apple's current renaissance. And Laurene and I have a wonderful family together.

I'm pretty sure none of this would have happened if I hadn't been fired from Apple. It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don't lose faith. I'm convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You've got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don't settle.

My third story is about death.

When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: "If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you'll most certainly be right." It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: "If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?" And whenever the answer has been "No" for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.

Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything — all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure – these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

About a year ago I was diagnosed with cancer. I had a scan at 7:30 in the morning, and it clearly showed a tumor on my pancreas. I didn't even know what a pancreas was. The doctors told me this was almost certainly a type of cancer that is incurable, and that I should expect to live no longer than three to six months. My doctor advised me to go home and get my affairs in order, which is doctor's code for prepare to die. It means to try to tell your kids everything you thought you'd have the next 10 years to tell them in just a few months. It means to make sure everything is buttoned up so that it will be as easy as possible for your family. It means to say your goodbyes.

I lived with that diagnosis all day. Later that evening I had a biopsy, where they stuck an endoscope down my throat, through my stomach and into my intestines, put a needle into my pancreas and got a few cells from the tumor. I was sedated, but my wife, who was there, told me that when they viewed the cells under a microscope the doctors started crying because it turned out to be a very rare form of pancreatic cancer that is curable with surgery. I had the surgery and I'm fine now.

This was the closest I've been to facing death, and I hope it's the closest I get for a few more decades. Having lived through it, I can now say this to you with a bit more certainty than when death was a useful but purely intellectual concept:

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.

Your time is limited, so don't waste it living someone else's life. Don't be trapped by dogma — which is living with the results of other people's thinking. Don't let the noise of others' opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.

When I was young, there was an amazing publication called The Whole Earth Catalog, which was one of the bibles of my generation. It was created by a fellow named Stewart Brand not far from here in Menlo Park, and he brought it to life with his poetic touch. This was in the late 1960's, before personal computers and desktop publishing, so it was all made with typewriters, scissors, and polaroid cameras. It was sort of like Google in paperback form, 35 years before Google came along: it was idealistic, and overflowing with neat tools and great notions.

Stewart and his team put out several issues of The Whole Earth Catalog, and then when it had run its course, they put out a final issue. It was the mid-1970s, and I was your age. On the back cover of their final issue was a photograph of an early morning country road, the kind you might find yourself hitchhiking on if you were so adventurous. Beneath it were the words: "Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish." It was their farewell message as they signed off. Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish. And I have always wished that for myself. And now, as you graduate to begin anew, I wish that for you.

Stay Hungry. Stay Foolish.

Thank you all very much.

2010年7月10日的報導:

据日本共同社10日报道，日本经济产业省调查显示，中国网络商城销售的商品中有很多是日本企业商品的仿冒品，经产省将要求中国政府采取对策，同时也在呼吁消费者小心上当。
报道称，为掌握仿冒品的流通情况，日本经产省于2009年度在中国的主要网络商城上购买了日本企业的特定商品各10种，并进行了真伪鉴定。在某网络商城购 买的化妆品及卡通形象商品全为仿冒，在其他网络商城购买的手表有60%为仿冒、服装83%为仿冒。受调查的网络商城名没有公开。

据估算，中国的网购市场规模2009年超过了3万亿日元，比上年扩大了近1倍。经产省认为市场的急速扩大导致了仿冒品的严重泛滥。

经产省对受理的有关仿冒品的咨询进行了汇总。结果显示，2009年有关网络交易的咨询达953件，是上年的5倍多，在受理件数中的比例从6成升至9成。据称，中国销售仿冒品的网站骤增是一个重要原因。

日本消费者收到广告邮件后被引至无良网商的事件层出不穷，这也是消费者提供信息增多的原因之一。

此外，在2004～2009年受理的来自日本企业的咨询中，包括网络商城在内，确认了仿冒品制造国的咨询有173件，其中逾半数都与中国有关。

日本政府将要求中国政府完善相关法律，使网络供应商主动删除销售仿冒品的网站。5月在东京召开了有日中网络业人士参加的研讨会，日方在会上要求中国就仿冒品问题采取对策。


< 以上取材自網站http://www.cnbeta.com/articles/116050.htm>


好笑的是,在台灣也不遑多讓.竟然還有消費者主動向賣家要求: "可不可以也賣109品牌的(仿冒品)?"...

以前日本是查大陸,你難保以後不會來查台灣的...

台灣年輕女生喜歡的LOWRYS FARM在澀谷109並沒有設櫃,澀谷區有三間店: Parco, 0101 City跟Laforet原宿. 這個在台灣已經有仿冒品了.其他109百貨專櫃品牌應該是沒有,但是CECIL McBEE有可能有(有仿冒品/類似品牌名稱).另外ㄧ個109人氣品牌Liz Lisa(有很多瘋狂的碎花,像是發瘋的仙女),在台灣有個品牌名稱取的跟它很像,叫做"Lisa Lisa",沒創意到極點了,連名字都要跟人家取的幾乎ㄧ模一樣.

那名字跟人家109人氣品牌取的那麼像,衣服風格是怎麼樣呢? 不怎樣,就是台版日系.台灣大部份衣服都是長那個樣子啊.每個文案都寫說"東京OL風",奇怪,我怎麼都沒看過東京OL穿成那副德性? 你也可以寫台灣OL風,可是,台灣OL有自己的風格嗎?

不然就是動不動把穿衣風格分成兩大派:日系或韓風? 為什麼就不能穿出自己的風格呢? 光是日本人/韓國人,他們自己的穿衣風格都很多樣化.硬把自己塞進某個派別,然後弄得什麼都不像. 為什麼不能像自己呢?

我可以大膽說,那些號稱自己去日本帶貨的人,大部份都是假的,去日本批貨成本那麼高,怎麼可能兩個月就去ㄧ次?!他們很可能連東京都沒去過,或是連他們仿冒的品牌在東京的店面都沒去過,109也沒去過,連東京的這ㄧ區到那ㄧ區要怎麼坐車都不知道.東京哪裡是潮流的發源地,必去的流行重點spot,都不熟.

這些人對日本(文化/環境/時尚)根本不熟,看著台灣發行的中文版日文雜誌東施效顰,東摹仿ㄧ個,西摹仿ㄧ個,最後都變成台版日系風.

我看到台灣有人公然販賣仿冒品,不論是網路還是實體店面都有...對我而言,要嘛就買名牌的正品,要嘛就買no brand,買/賣仿冒品是"什麼也不是"的行為.你只不過買了印有類似正品標籤的衣服,然後以為大部份人都認不出來那是不是正品.這道理跟街上很多女生背的名牌大LOGO包道理是一樣的,10個裡面有9.5個都是假的,LOGO還那麼大,有夠俗,真是廉價的虛榮心!

比較進步的先進國家,如日本,美國,義大利和法國海關,對於抓緝名牌包的仿冒品都很嚴格執行.所以如果你的包如果是假包,出國時都最好不要帶,被抓到,都會罰很重!(而且台灣人都超愛買大LOGO包,就怕別人不知道他買的是名牌包一樣).

所謂的原單,跟單貨,(原單)外流等術語,其實都是仿.冒.品.

在日本定價￥3,990的衣服,怎麼可能在台灣賣台幣$680? 現在匯率很貴,是0.38ㄟ.日幣3990＝台幣1517. 原價要NT$1,517的衣服他賣$680? 是要賺個屁阿?!那當然都是假貨呀!

我在日本沒有看過賣仿冒品的服飾店,有日雜品牌的路面店,或是新興設計師的小店,不然便宜的商場/商店裡面的衣服也都是用自己的商標,沒有什麼仿冒品,從來沒看過仿冒品, no brand就是no brand, 日本人也不會亂用別人的商標,販賣仿冒品.我想,那是因為,不管是商人還是消費者都有共識,那就是:買/賣仿冒品是可恥的! 他們會覺得"恥ずかしい".

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　申請代理人は、綾克己弁護士（東京都千代田区内幸町1-2-2、電話03-3596-0260）。監督委員は、澤野正明弁護士（東京都千代田区丸の内2-2-2、電話03-6212-5500）が選任されている。

　当社は、1982年（昭和57年）12月創業、85年（昭和60年）10月に法人改組された婦人服及び同洋品雑貨の小売業者。94年6月に、10代後半～20代前半をターゲットとした小売店「LOVE BOAT」1号店（渋谷109）を開設したのを皮切りに、小売店「LB＝v「L.D.S～LOVE DRUG STORE」など積極的に多店舗展開を推進。当初は、都内の渋谷・新宿のみの展開であったが、ブランド知名度の向上、業容の拡大に伴い、札幌、横浜、名古屋、大阪、福岡など地方都市への集中出店を進め、2009年3月時点で約100店舗を展開していた。

　2003年2月期には年売上高約74億1400万円を計上し、ニューヨークの人気デザイナー、アメリカの人気歌手とのコラボレーション、メジャーリーグとのライセンス商品などが好評を博し、シブヤ系ファッションの先駆者的存在として、とりわけ若い女性層に圧倒的な支持を獲得。この間、店舗やブランドの統廃合を進めて営業基盤を確立し、2009年2月期の年売上高は約125億4300万円に伸長していた。

　しかし、事業拡大に伴う先行投資から有利子負債の増大により財務体質が脆弱化。そうしたなか、2008年のリーマン・ショックの影響から金融機関の与信判断が厳格化したことで資金調達が困難となり、弁済計画を見直すとともにリストラを行っていた。その後も、ファストファッションの台頭など市場環境の悪化から売り上げが急減。今年3月に発生した東日本大震災の影響もあり売り上げ減少に歯止めがかからず、恒常的な資金不足に陥り、自主再建を断念した。

　負債は、2011年7月末時点で約69億8900万円。




*adopted from Yahoo Japan

我挑衣服,對時尚的眼光真的很好ㄟ,常常是幾年前我在國外看到喜歡的品牌,之後就在台灣設櫃(也有的還沒有的).


剛剛看到ㄧ則PO文:

16 Jun 2011 04:00 PM PDT

香港品牌Dazzle Spirea及JU'S女裝即日起到7/17，在勤美誠品綠園道推出多款限量特惠服飾，無論上衣或洋裝，都簡單有型，售完為止，快來瞧瞧吧！


這兩個品牌正好是幾年前我在香港採購衣服的兩個品牌,結果之後就在誠品敦南和勤美成品設櫃了.因為誠品裡面的櫃大多強調設計感+質感佳的衣服,所以證明我選衣服的眼光的確是ㄧ流,而且都跑在別人前面(很前面,哈哈~!)

不論是ZARA,Dazzle Spirea, JDC Ju's,kitson, FOREVER 21,...等等,都是這樣.

日本節目說:男人選擇美女的理由--->美女比較容易繁衍後代.
(男性が美人を選ぶ理由：美人の子が産まれ孫が増え易い)


現場的男藝人問說:"那是不是選擇醜女(來繁殖後代)是最安全的？
（ブサイクな女性と遺伝子を残そうとする方が一番安全？）

專家A說:不行.(それはダメ)

專家B說:和醜女生的小孩會變成醜八怪啊,不是嗎?
　　　　（ブサイクな人の子どもはブサイクになるでしょ？）

(生物學來說)醜女因為沒什麼人追,無法留下子孫的可能性就比較高.
（ブサイクはモテないから、遺伝的に孫が残らない可能性高い。



*女性:隨著年紀的增長,越容易對結婚對象的標準妥協.(歳をとると結婚相手に妥協する)
男性:隨著年紀的增長,越不容易對結婚對象的標準妥協.(歳をとると相手に妥協出来なくなる)


*以結婚為前提選對象時,最重要的是:頭腦好不好.
(結婚を前提にした時に、一番重要なところは...>頭の良さ。)

據說,看小時候的照片就可以知道你未來結婚生活會成功?或以離婚收場.

這個小時喉,指的是小學前的照片.

如果你小時候的照片大部份都是笑臉的,那將來婚姻生活幸福的機率比較高.如果小時候的照片大都是愁眉苦臉,沒有笑的話,很可能離婚的機率就高很多.

為什麼呢?

因為看小時候的照片可以看出你家庭生活美不美滿,通常小時候照片笑臉多的小孩子,他的家庭是幸福的.沒有笑臉的小孩呢,他的家庭生活是比較不美滿的,因此小孩臉上才會沒有笑容.

而ㄧ個人的家庭生活狀況會影響自己以後的婚姻.通常自己父母婚姻不美滿的,自己的婚姻也是不美滿.

我看日本節目的專家說:

見た目が老けてる人、病死以外でも早死にが多い。

見た目が老けてる人、瞬発力、判断力が低い可能性がある。



也就是說,長的臭老的人可能比較笨,反應慢,動作比較笨拙,身體和心理都比較不健康.因為你身體內部的健康狀況會反應在你的外表,包括臉,皮膚和身材.

頭腦比較笨,反應比較慢,身體狀況又不佳,當然發生事故(例如:交通事故)的機率就比較高了.

有的人臉看起來比實際年齡年輕,這代表他的身體和心理狀況都比較健康.我們不會說ㄧ個氣色紅潤,神采奕奕的人是不健康的,但臉上總是烏雲罩頂,好像印堂發黑,人生過的很不順的樣子,加上色衰氣老的人,ㄧ看就是身體和心理都比較不健康或有問題的.

所以,中文說的"ㄧ臉衰相"還真的是有它的道理,長的衰的人,好像什麼都不會順利.

The news that Steve Jobs resigned as CEO came as little surprise to those who have been monitoring his ailing health lately. But it does mark the end of one of the most inspiring careers in the history of the business world. Few people in this world will revolutionize one industry. Steve Jobs revolutionized several: computing, telecommunications, music and movies. Since he had such a profound impact on the world, I think it’s fair to ask ourselves how he did it and, more importantly, how can we learn to unleash our inner Steve Jobs to advance our business, our careers, and the world.

In my research as an author on two books on Steve Jobs I’ve identified 7 principles that drove Steve Jobs and Apple’s success.

Here is an excerpt from the talk entitled “Steve Jobs’ 7 principles of innovation” at a conference in Europe.









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Principle One: Do what you love. Steve Jobs taught us that you cannot come up with new, innovative and exciting products unless you’re inspired yourself and passionate about moving society forward. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Life it too short, he said, for living someone elses’s dream. And if you haven’t found your passion, he said, keep looking, don’t settle.

Principle Two: Put a dent in the universe. Steve Jobs believes in the power of vision. And he certainly has a big vision. In the mid 1970s when computers were relegated to a small group of hobbyists, Steve Jobs was convinced that he could put a computer in the hands of everyday people. And so he challenged his co-founder Steve Wozniak and the Apple team to create a computer that everyday people would feel comfortable using. Eventually, that led to the computer that changed everything — The Macintosh. “Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. Principle Three: Connect things to spark your creativity. Steve Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. Jobs often connects ideas from other fields. For example, he studied calligraphy in college. Calligraphy had no practical application to his life. But he was interested in it and passionate about it. Later his calligraphy experience would find its way into the Mac, the first computer with beautiful fonts. Creativity is connecting things from different fields.

Principle Four: Say no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs is proud of what Apple does but he’s also proud of what Apple has chosen not to do. Steve Jobs once said that innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things. I believe this speaks to simplicity. In apple’s world, simplicity is the elimination of clutter. Anything that clutters the user experience is eliminated. That’s why there’s only one button on the front of an iPad or why there is no built-in keyboard on an iPhone. Apple’s products are popular because they are simple, elegant and easy to use. But it all starts from Steve Jobs asking, what can we remove?

Principle Five: Create insanely different experiences. Steve Jobs created many product innovations, of course, but he also innovated around the customer service experience and I think it’s a part of his legacy that might not be fully appreciated. The Apple Stores make more money per square foot than most any other retailer including many luxury brands and they’re packed morning to night. The average stores sees 17,000 visitors a week! When Steve Jobs first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives instead. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand.

Principle Six: Master the message. You can have the greatest idea in the world but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter. Steve Jobs is the world’s greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation. If there’s one thing that you can today to be more “Steve Jobs like”, it’s to think visually. There were very few words on a Steve Jobs slide. It’s a philosophy called picture superiority. People are more likely to remember information when it’s presented as words and pictures instead of words alone. I think it’s impossible to watch a Steve Jobs presentation without completely rethinking your current presentation. Sell your ideas the Steve Jobs way.



Here is an excerpt from my presentation to Stanford MBA’s based on Steve Jobs presentation style.
Principle One: Do what you love. Steve Jobs taught us that you cannot come up with new, innovative and exciting products unless you’re inspired yourself and passionate about moving society forward. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Life it too short, he said, for living someone elses’s dream. And if you haven’t found your passion, he said, keep looking, don’t settle.

Principle Two: Put a dent in the universe. Steve Jobs believes in the power of vision. And he certainly has a big vision. In the mid 1970s when computers were relegated to a small group of hobbyists, Steve Jobs was convinced that he could put a computer in the hands of everyday people. And so he challenged his co-founder Steve Wozniak and the Apple team to create a computer that everyday people would feel comfortable using. Eventually, that led to the computer that changed everything — The Macintosh. “Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. Principle Three: Connect things to spark your creativity. Steve Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. Jobs often connects ideas from other fields. For example, he studied calligraphy in college. Calligraphy had no practical application to his life. But he was interested in it and passionate about it. Later his calligraphy experience would find its way into the Mac, the first computer with beautiful fonts. Creativity is connecting things from different fields.

Principle Four: Say no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs is proud of what Apple does but he’s also proud of what Apple has chosen not to do. Steve Jobs once said that innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things. I believe this speaks to simplicity. In apple’s world, simplicity is the elimination of clutter. Anything that clutters the user experience is eliminated. That’s why there’s only one button on the front of an iPad or why there is no built-in keyboard on an iPhone. Apple’s products are popular because they are simple, elegant and easy to use. But it all starts from Steve Jobs asking, what can we remove?

Principle Five: Create insanely different experiences. Steve Jobs created many product innovations, of course, but he also innovated around the customer service experience and I think it’s a part of his legacy that might not be fully appreciated. The Apple Stores make more money per square foot than most any other retailer including many luxury brands and they’re packed morning to night. The average stores sees 17,000 visitors a week! When Steve Jobs first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives instead. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand.

Principle Six: Master the message. You can have the greatest idea in the world but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter. Steve Jobs is the world’s greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation. If there’s one thing that you can today to be more “Steve Jobs like”, it’s to think visually. There were very few words on a Steve Jobs slide. It’s a philosophy called picture superiority. People are more likely to remember information when it’s presented as words and pictures instead of words alone. I think it’s impossible to watch a Steve Jobs presentation without completely rethinking your current presentation. Sell your ideas the Steve Jobs way.



Here is an excerpt from my presentation to Stanford MBA’s based on Steve Jobs presentation style.

Principle One: Do what you love. Steve Jobs taught us that you cannot come up with new, innovative and exciting products unless you’re inspired yourself and passionate about moving society forward. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Life it too short, he said, for living someone elses’s dream. And if you haven’t found your passion, he said, keep looking, don’t settle.

Principle Two: Put a dent in the universe. Steve Jobs believes in the power of vision. And he certainly has a big vision. In the mid 1970s when computers were relegated to a small group of hobbyists, Steve Jobs was convinced that he could put a computer in the hands of everyday people. And so he challenged his co-founder Steve Wozniak and the Apple team to create a computer that everyday people would feel comfortable using. Eventually, that led to the computer that changed everything — The Macintosh. “Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. Principle Three: Connect things to spark your creativity. Steve Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. Jobs often connects ideas from other fields. For example, he studied calligraphy in college. Calligraphy had no practical application to his life. But he was interested in it and passionate about it. Later his calligraphy experience would find its way into the Mac, the first computer with beautiful fonts. Creativity is connecting things from different fields.

Principle Four: Say no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs is proud of what Apple does but he’s also proud of what Apple has chosen not to do. Steve Jobs once said that innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things. I believe this speaks to simplicity. In apple’s world, simplicity is the elimination of clutter. Anything that clutters the user experience is eliminated. That’s why there’s only one button on the front of an iPad or why there is no built-in keyboard on an iPhone. Apple’s products are popular because they are simple, elegant and easy to use. But it all starts from Steve Jobs asking, what can we remove?

Principle Five: Create insanely different experiences. Steve Jobs created many product innovations, of course, but he also innovated around the customer service experience and I think it’s a part of his legacy that might not be fully appreciated. The Apple Stores make more money per square foot than most any other retailer including many luxury brands and they’re packed morning to night. The average stores sees 17,000 visitors a week! When Steve Jobs first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives instead. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand.

Principle Six: Master the message. You can have the greatest idea in the world but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter. Steve Jobs is the world’s greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation. If there’s one thing that you can today to be more “Steve Jobs like”, it’s to think visually. There were very few words on a Steve Jobs slide. It’s a philosophy called picture superiority. People are more likely to remember information when it’s presented as words and pictures instead of words alone. I think it’s impossible to watch a Steve Jobs presentation without completely rethinking your current presentation. Sell your ideas the Steve Jobs way.



Here is an excerpt from my presentation to Stanford MBA’s based on Steve Jobs presentation style.
Principle One: Do what you love. Steve Jobs taught us that you cannot come up with new, innovative and exciting products unless you’re inspired yourself and passionate about moving society forward. Jobs once said, “People with passion can change the world for the better.” Life it too short, he said, for living someone elses’s dream. And if you haven’t found your passion, he said, keep looking, don’t settle.

Principle Two: Put a dent in the universe. Steve Jobs believes in the power of vision. And he certainly has a big vision. In the mid 1970s when computers were relegated to a small group of hobbyists, Steve Jobs was convinced that he could put a computer in the hands of everyday people. And so he challenged his co-founder Steve Wozniak and the Apple team to create a computer that everyday people would feel comfortable using. Eventually, that led to the computer that changed everything — The Macintosh. “Steve’s extraordinary vision and leadership saved Apple and guided it to its position as the world’s most innovative and valuable technology company,” said Art Levinson, Chairman of Genentech, on behalf of Apple’s Board. Principle Three: Connect things to spark your creativity. Steve Jobs once said creativity is connecting things. He meant that people with a broad set of life experiences can often see things that others miss. Jobs often connects ideas from other fields. For example, he studied calligraphy in college. Calligraphy had no practical application to his life. But he was interested in it and passionate about it. Later his calligraphy experience would find its way into the Mac, the first computer with beautiful fonts. Creativity is connecting things from different fields.

Principle Four: Say no to 1,000 things. Steve Jobs is proud of what Apple does but he’s also proud of what Apple has chosen not to do. Steve Jobs once said that innovation comes from saying no to 1,000 things. I believe this speaks to simplicity. In apple’s world, simplicity is the elimination of clutter. Anything that clutters the user experience is eliminated. That’s why there’s only one button on the front of an iPad or why there is no built-in keyboard on an iPhone. Apple’s products are popular because they are simple, elegant and easy to use. But it all starts from Steve Jobs asking, what can we remove?

Principle Five: Create insanely different experiences. Steve Jobs created many product innovations, of course, but he also innovated around the customer service experience and I think it’s a part of his legacy that might not be fully appreciated. The Apple Stores make more money per square foot than most any other retailer including many luxury brands and they’re packed morning to night. The average stores sees 17,000 visitors a week! When Steve Jobs first came up with the concept for the Apple Stores he said they would be different because instead of just moving boxes, the stores would enrich lives instead. Everything about the experience you have when you walk into an Apple store is intended to enrich your life and to create an emotional connection between you and the Apple brand.

Principle Six: Master the message. You can have the greatest idea in the world but if you can’t communicate your ideas, it doesn’t matter. Steve Jobs is the world’s greatest corporate storyteller. Instead of simply delivering a presentation like most people do, he informed, he educated, he inspired and he entertained, all in one presentation. If there’s one thing that you can today to be more “Steve Jobs like”, it’s to think visually. There were very few words on a Steve Jobs slide. It’s a philosophy called picture superiority. People are more likely to remember information when it’s presented as words and pictures instead of words alone. I think it’s impossible to watch a Steve Jobs presentation without completely rethinking your current presentation. Sell your ideas the Steve Jobs way.



Here is an excerpt from my presentation to Stanford MBA’s based on Steve Jobs presentation style.

Principle Seven: Sell dreams, not products. Steve Jobs captured our imagination because he really understands his customer. In 1997, when Apple was close to bankruptcy, Steve Jobs said he would reduce the number of products Apple sold to satisfy the needs of their core customers. At the time, he said, “some people think you’ve got to be crazy to buy a mac, but in that craziness we see genius and those are the people we’re making tools for.” Your customers don’t care about your product. They care about themselves, their hopes, their ambitions. Steve jobs taught us that if you help your customers reach their dreams, you’ll win them over.

There’s one story that I think sums up Steve Jobs’ career at Apple. An executive who had the job of reinventing the Disney Store once called up Jobs and asked for advice. Steve’s advice? Dream bigger. I think that’s the best advice he would give us today and the advice he will continue to offer to Apple as its Chairman. See genius in your craziness, believe in yourself, believe in your vision, and be constantly prepared to defend those ideas. Because it’s those ideas that could potentially change the world.

Carmine Gallo is the communications coach for the world’s most admired brands. He is a popular keynote speaker and author of several books including the bestsellers, The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs and The Innovation Secrets of Steve Jobs. His new book, The Power of Foursquare, will be released by McGraw-Hill in October, 2011 Follow him on Twitter: carminegallo





*adopted from www.Forbes.com

Let’s all pray for Steve Jobs. Struggling against cancer since 2004, the Apple co-founder, chairman and now former CEO has built an astonishing career, and an astoundingly successful company. He created Apple (with the Woz), was pushed out, and came back to save the company when it was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. With Steve’s guidance, Apple has become one of the world’s great companies, changing every industry it touched. Music. Mobile phones. Movies. Software. Hardware. Software publishing. Advertising. Apple now has a market cap north of $300 billion; just days ago the stock briefly surpassed Exxon Mobil as the world’s most valuable public company.

Steve is one of a kind, our generation’s Thomas Edison and Henry Ford rolled into one. He has changed the world in too many ways to recount here. And with his decision to step away from the company’s day-to-day operations, investors will once again face the question about how the company will fare without him leading the charge.

All that said, the Street should get over the initial shock in a hurry. Back in January, I wrote a magazine column for Forbes headlined “Time to Step Down, Steve.” I wrote that piece just after the company announced his latest medical leave. In the column, I proposed that Jobs should step down as CEO, hand over the job to Tim Cook, and take over as the company’s chairman. And that is what happened, of course. (Though it took a little longer than I expected.)

And I stand by conclusion in that column: Apple is going to be fine. Tim Cook is not Steve Jobs, but he is a talented, highly respected executive who has been running Apple’s day-to-day operations for years. And Cook is not running the show alone. Apple has a deep bench, including superstars like industrial designer Jonathan Ive, marketing guru Phil Schiller and iPhone software specialist Scott Forstall. While some investors would have you believe that Steve Jobs single-handedly grew Apple up from the ground, the truth is that the company is now a highly polished product creation machine. And there are more miracles on the way. The next-generation iPhone, the iPad 3, new Macs, potentially an amazing new HQ in Cupertino and maybe even Apple-branded televisions are on the way, no doubt along with other things that so far haven’t leaked. Think Apple is done changing the world? Think different.

Seriously: Apple will be just fine. And if the stock should happen to sell off here – the shares were down about 5% in late trading Wednesday – investors would be well advised to take advantage of what could be a tremendous buying opportunity. The company has $76 billion in cash; back that out from its market cap at Wednesday’s close and the stock is trading at just over 2x estimated revenues for FY 2012. The stock is cheap, and Apple will be fine.

If you feel the need to take action in response to the news, go ahead and pray for Steve Jobs, a man who changed the world we live in – a many who almost single-handedly made technology cool. And then do yourself a favor, buy some shares of the company he built and sock them away. Apple is going to be remaking the way we play and work for a long, long time to come.




*adopted from www.Forbes.com

Don’t freak out. Apple‘s board of directors has taken a lot of hard questions over the past few years about its succession plans. It’s plain now, however, that the Cupertino, California-based Mac maker’s plan has been unfolding for some time.

Longtime Chief Operating Officer Tim Cook is now the company’s Chief Executive. Jobs remains at the company, as chairman. And, more importantly, so do Jobs’ plans for the next iPhone, the next Macintosh computer, and the next iPad.














Was Wednesday’s announcement precipitated by a sudden turn in Jobs’ health? Or is Jobs simply giving Cook a title better suited to the role he has long played at Apple, as the cancer survivor eases away from the rigors of day-to-day management? It may not matter.

Charles Golvin, principal analyst at Forrester Research put it well during a phone interview Wednesday night. I quoted him, briefly, earlier. His remarks are worth quoting at greater length here:

The reality is product development cycles are lengthy. The next wave of products we’re going to see from Apple, the next iPhone, the iPad, even the follow on products, it’s not like they don’t exist. There are certainly early drawings and early designs. And he’s also going to be chairman, and if his health is decent he’s going to have input. [So] we’re years away from seeing what Apple really looks like and what their products really look like without the influence of Steve Jobs.

They’ve assembled great people, Phil Schiller, Tim Cook, Eddy Cue, Scott Forstall… but what’s going to change is previously they’ve been working collaborativelywith one person as the ultimate decision maker. Now they’re going to be working more as a collaborative because I don’t believe Tim Cook is the kind of guy who will be taking the same kind of product role that Jobs has taken. They’ll have to work as a collaborative. And that will be a really significantly different dynamic for the company. Of course they have a very strong culture, they tend to work from a common mindset.

It’s a point reinforced by an anecdote shared by AllThingsD’s Arik Hesseldahl Wednesday.

In 2007, right after the introduction of the first iPhone, I attended a meeting with Jobs and the editors of the magazine I was working for at the time.

The meeting included a Jobs-led, hands-on demo with prototype iPhones, during which I asked Jobs a question: “Will you do a version of this without the phone?” The answer — which surprised me that he even gave it — was yes. In that moment I got a very tiny glimpse of the long path that lay ahead. I could see way off in the distance the logical progression leading to first to the iPod touch and from there to the iPad. It was a revelation.

I’ll add my own observation. At shareholder meetings and on conference calls with analysts, Cook has become adept at explaining what makes Apple, Apple. It’s part of a broader shift at Apple that has occurred as Jobs has moved from shaping new products to shaping the entire company. The surest sign of this shift came in 2008, when Jobs hired Joel Podolny, dean of the Yale School of Management, to create a program to build a system out of Apple’s successes called Apple University.

Apple won’t be the same without Jobs. It would be hard to imagine anyone with the authority to abruptly change the way the system Jobs has built works. But Apple isn’t without Jobs yet.



*adopted from www.Forbes.com

[이데일리] 2011년 08월 18일(목) 오후 07:13|

[이데일리 박형수 기자] 글로벌 시장에서 주목받던 우리나라 IT 대표주자들의 기업가치가 폭락하고 있다. 주력제품의 가격 하락 등 업황 탓도 있지만, 전세계 IT업체에 불어닥친 인수합병(M&A)과 구조조정 등의 후폭풍을 바로 맞을 수 있다는 우려가 커진데 따른 영향도 받고 있다.

구글이 모토로라 휴대폰 사업 인수를 발표한 뒤 삼성전자는 겉으로 태연한 모습을 보였지만, 증권가 애널리스트들을 대상으로 인수 영향 설문조사를 진행하는 등 바짝 긴장한 모습이다.

이런 와중에 국내 시가총액 1위 삼성전자 주가가 장중 무려 6%대나 급락, 외국인과 기관투자자들의 ‘현금인출기‘가 됐다는 지적까지 나오고 있다.
　
18일 국내 증시에 투하된 ‘런치 폭탄’(점심시간대 주가폭락)은 IT업종에서 시작됐다. 이날 코스피 지수는 32.09포인트(-1.7%) 빠진 1860.58로 마감, 1900선에서 한참 뒤로 밀렸다.

유가증권시장에서 기관투자자들은 IT 업종에서만 3852억원의 매도 물량을 쏟아냈다. 그 영향으로 삼성전자 주가는 5.72%나 급락, 70만9000원에 장을 마쳤다. 종가 기준으로 2009년 1월15일 이후 2년7개월만에 가장 큰 낙폭이다. 삼성전자는 지난 한해 동안 한차례도 5% 이상 떨어지지 않았다.

지난 2일부터 11일까지 8거래일 동안 외국인은 삼성전자 주식을 팔아 5353억원 가량의 현금을 챙겼다. 기관투자자들도 최근 6거래일 동안 삼성전자에 대해 3717억원 순매도를 기록했다.

개인이 저가매수 기회라며 연일 사들였지만 외국인과 기관투자자의 ‘매물 폭탄’ 앞에 주가는 70만원선에 겨우 턱걸이 한 상황이다. 지난 11일에는 68만8000원까지 추락했다.

상황이 이렇다보니 삼성전자가 외국인과 기관투자자들의 현금인출기로 전락한 게 아니냐는 우려섞인 목소리도 나오고 잇다.

시장 전문가들은 “한결같이 국내 증시의 든든한 버팀목 역할을 했던 삼성전자 기업가치가 뚝뚝 떨어지면서, 최근 코스피에 보탬이 되지않고 있다”며 “이달 초 코스피가 단기간에 20% 급락한 이후 반등할 때도 삼성전자는 하락세를 보여 걱정스럽다”고 말했다.

김장열 미래에셋증권 애널리스트는 “삼성전자 주가순자산비율(PBR)은 적자를 기록했던 지난 2008년 4분기보다 약간 높은 수준”이라고 분석했다.
　
삼성전자 뿐 아니라 LG전자와 LG디스플레이, 하이닉스반도체 등 국내 대표 IT기업들도 상황은 비슷하다. 이달 초 코스피 급락기에 외국인이 IT업종 비중을 축소한 것에 이어 기관마저 주식을 내다 팔기 시작하면서 이들 기업의 주가도 시장 대비 수익률을 한참 밑돌고 있다.

삼성전자와 함께 세계 IT 시장 점유율을 꾸준히 높여왔던 LG전자는 스마트폰 사업 부진 등 IT제품 뉴트렌드를 읽는데 실패하면서 주가가 최근 3개월 만에 거의 반토막났다.

11만원을 호가하던 주가가 6만원 아래로 내려왔다. LG전자의 주가순자산비율(PBR)은 1배 수준에 그치고 있다. LG디스플레이는 1배에도 채 못 미친다. 청산가치보다 시가총액이 작은 셈이다.
　
하이닉스 주가는 이날 12.24% 급락(종가 1만7200원), 52주 신저가를 고쳐썼다.
　
신현준 동부증권 애널리스트는 최근 IT업계 기업가치 하락과 관련해 “3분기 이후 실적 턴어라운드 기미가 나타나지 않으면서 기관투자자들이 IT주 비중을 줄이고 있다”며 “최근 주가 하락으로 손절매(로스컷) 물량도 나오고 있다”고 말했다.




*adopted from Yahoo Korea

2011.8.19 00:36
　【ニューヨーク支局】世界の金融市場で再び動揺が広がっている。１８日のニューヨーク株式市場で、ダウ工業株３０種平均が一時５２０ドル超急落し、１週間ぶりに１万１０００ドルを割り込んだ。欧州の主要株価指数も軒並み下落。ニューヨーク外国為替市場では、ドル売りが加速し、円相場が一時１ドル＝７６円４０銭台に上昇し、３月１７日に付けた戦後最高値（７６円２５銭）に再び急接近した。米国景気の先行きに加え、金融システムへの不安も広がり、株安が連鎖している。

　ニューヨークのダウ平均は午前１０時半現在、前日比４４７・５２ドル安の１万０９６２・６９ドル、ハイテク株主体のナスダック総合指数は１１１・５５ポイント安の２３９９・９３で取引された。

　１８日発表の米製造業の景況感を示す指数が市場予想よりも悪く、景気悪化の懸念が高まった。さらに米金融当局が欧州系大手銀行を調査しているとの報道を受け、信用不安も台頭。欧州では、金融株を中心に売られ、独株価指数が一時５％強、英仏の指数も一時４％前後下げた。

　ニューヨーク金先物は史上最高値を更新し、安全資産への資金逃避が加速。相対的に安全と判断された円を買う動きも活発化した。




*adopted from MSN JP［経済・IT］ニュース