Ying’s Blog

Environment is one of the issues that are close to my heart! Many LA YIN panel members share the same concerns and some asked me when LA YIN will come out with Eco-friendly stuff.

I have been paying attention to ECO friendly materials: recycled, bio-degradable and etc.

We are now working with engineers in China on some good environment friendly materials and I hope we can launch an ECO-friendly collection in not too distant future. Stay tuned!

The excitement was so contagious as I was listening to all the changes my dear friend Anki is making in her career path.

Anki has provided her leadership in many organizations including her very early HR director assignment with Apple Sweden, and her most recent one as HR director at one of the largest insurance companies in the Europe (Trygg-Hansa). It was a highly challenging leadership assignment of transforming an old and conservative establishment into a modern one. In my impression, Anki is always calm and elegantly presented. The glitters in her eyes give away her fondness for next level of challenges. She recently decided to leave her latest executive role and pursue her next adventure! Much to my delight, we’ll soon see another outstanding woman entrepreneur among us. I’ll keep it secret as for what her business will be about, but stay tuned!

For many of us, boredom is not an option. Anki and I very much share this philosophy.

I was waiting for the latest Apple creation with full anticipation!! I felt like a kid waiting for Santa to arrive!

As always, Steve Jobs presentation was great and inspirational! I fully appreciate the notion of focusing on a few tasks and make them outstanding. Apart from the designs, there are two things  I love about Apple stuff. First, they perform the major tasks way superior than others on the block and second (more important for me) is that they create a seamless eco system surround modern beings who have modern needs such as multimedia consumption, mobile computing, and ubiquitous and all-the-time connection: my apple gadgets are synced seamlessly (I don’t need my engineering Ph.D degree to do this), I navigate through my computing tasks at a much more efficient pace (if compared to my many years experience with PCs), I got connected to my iPhone/Air, or multimedia contents, or people wherever or whenever I want (most of the time depending on network coverage).

Recall my passionate years at Motorola’s research labs, we were plotting the dream of a seamless and connected world. Now I see my dream unfold through Apple’s eco-system. iPad is what I have been wanting for our home, a great link between iPhone and MacBook. Now I’ve got a five year old girl, I can see it’s also a great thing for young kids who want to share photos, music, videos with friends and browse web to satisfy their curiosity. My daughter already asked one for her birthday! Certainly, I’m obliged to book one for her. I know I’ll borrow from her to show recipes on the kitchen bench when I cook up new dishes.

Now having said all the great things about Apple stuff, they are not completely perfect without any default. This morning, I couldn’t help noticing the article: iPad name draws feminine hygiene jokes. People reasoned that no women was involved in the marketing team. I don’t have any problems with iPad, however I was indeed made to wonder the same thing but for another feature in iPhone. The virtual keyboard on the iPhone is virtually impossible for women with long finger nails. Some of my friends who own iPhones had to give up for alternatives. If the developers were women, would they come up with the same virtual keyboard solution? Even with a great company like Apple, we still need No Pink Phone movement, don’t we!

I completely agree with the blog by Stacey Higginbotham .

It was a delicious excitement when I learned later, the display has drawn much attention from the people. It’s great to chat with the boutiques staff. They have their fingers on the customers pules. It’s amazing.

Many have been asking me since our launch in June 08, so what’s the next?

The next thing will be coming to public soon, hopefully before Christmas. You can contact me if you wish to have some presents that are never seen before.

We’ll have a new print design for our computer sleeves. And we’ll extend the sleeve to different PCs.

Here is the next print design: email me at store@la-yin.com if you want to secure one before Xmas.

I’m very pleased to see other link-minded women who left comments at Holly’s blog post.

I had much inspiration from Holly’s earlier blogs where she shared her insights on what we women want from the technology and how we react to the current tech consumer scene.

It’s simply great with the internet and etc, we’ve got a border-less one world, just like what Friedman discussed in his book ‘The World if Flat’. One can connect with people in every corner of the world. (This fits perfect with my citizen of the world identify!!)

Now that we’ve got such a nice world stage set up for us, why don’t we get the global No Pink phone movement going!