Then get your coffee at McDonald's, where they truly don't give a darn.
I find the same amount of apathy at Starbucks in my area, but YMMV.
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I find the same amount of apathy at Starbucks in my area, but YMMV.
You nailed it. How in the world are you going to tell your Barista that you want a 17 second expresso today instead of the 22 second expresso you had yesterday.
I mean this is coffee, not some cheap steak at Waffle House!
Absolutely, thats the first thing I thought too. This makes me more excited for the SDK apps than anything, what wonders are coming our way. Just the next few years as an iPhone 2 owner are going to be fantastic.
Appleinsider also touches on this article. It also mentioned places like the Zoo. When I was a child, the (Philadelphia) Zoo had little boxes outside of every animal "habitat." You could then use your little, red, plastic, elephant key to activate the box. A voice - you know, the deep, male voice used in all 1970's and 1980's school films - would start talking to explain about the animal.
Fast forward to 2008. Press a button on my iPhone and a voice starts streaming to (and from) my phone. Heck, for the fun of it, they can sample the old recordings.
I love this idea (in general, not just the zoo).
- would start talking to explain about the animal.Fast forward to 2008. Press a button on my iPhone and a voice starts streaming to (and from) my phone. Heck, for the fun of it, they can sample the old recordings.
I love this idea (in general, not just the zoo).
This kind of advertising/vendor functionality is where all of our "interconnectivity" is headed. In other words, The Future is NOW!
Press a button on my iPhone and a voice starts streaming to (and from) my phone. Heck, for the fun of it, they can sample the old recordings.
How about a trip to the movies? A theater could provide closed-captioning for hearing-impaired iPhone users, automated ordering for concessions, and an on-screen reminder to turn your darned ring tones off.
They would need an actual GPS antenna. Current iPhones will not be able to get that capability with a software update.
This would be nice however speaking of the airports, how many people actually pay the $7.95+ per day fee's that they charge to access the wifi networks? I have also noticed that this fee is for that single airport and not all airports. I have noticed this just going to Boston, Newark, Baltimore.
Why would I pay that much to access content that honestly should be free. Why should they charge you for WiFi when you are paying insane amounts for the airfare and hell $5.75 for a bottle of beer when your flight is delayed.
Why would I pay that much to access content that honestly should be free. Why should they charge you for WiFi when you are paying insane amounts for the airfare and hell $5.75 for a bottle of beer when your flight is delayed.
Cops will be using them with expired meters to write tickets. Meter notifies cop when it is expired and has a car in the spot and the cop walks or drives by. Cop will snap image with his iPhone along with the offending meter violation and auto plate. These images are wireless trasmitted to a portable printer he carries (like many meter-maids do already) and these will show up in photo form on the ticket they print out and leave on the car. No grounds for dispute anymore. LOL
How about the ability to use your iphone at theme parks / restraunts where you can get the fastpass, or that little buzzer that tells you that your seats are ready
And to warn you that a parade is about to block you in for an hour. Pal Mickey eat your heart out.
You're kidding, right? Starbucks is a place to get coffee and socialize with your peers, not the server. My orders have never consisted of anything more than me telling the cashier what I want and a thank you. I'm a friendly person also, but I don't go there to carry on a conversation with the cashier. This would also prevent one from having to stand in line. You would still have to wait, but at least you could go ahead and sit down.
Yep. You can use your phone as a sort of credit card in some places with the purchase billed to your phone bill.
The other example I saw a few years ago was Tsutaya, roughly Blockbuster in Japan, would allow you to sign up for a service that would give you discounts on certain movies sent to your phone as a text. The cool part was that it would check your viewing history and the store stock in your neighborhood and hit you with the discount when you're commuting home. They would time it so that it was just soon enough to be a good impulse purchase, and not too soon to be forgotten on the way home. A good database and use of the phone location tracking system. Not sure if this was ever widely implemented or not, but it seemed like a good plan. Opt in, so it's not spam, targeted to your tastes, and well timed.
As someone said earlier; YMMV. I never actually sit down, at Starbucks. I always get my order to go. When I walk in the store, the barista usually writes my order on the cups and puts them in the queue, before I even get to the line. But then again I am a creature of habit and anti-social by nature.
How about the ability to use your iphone at theme parks / restraunts where you can get the fastpass, or that little buzzer that tells you that your seats are ready
Hey - check out my iPhone/iPod web app at www.iviewr.com
Great for if your visiting those theme parks or other events
BTW - I'm currently putting together a feature-packed guide for next months WWDC so if you're attending, you may find it useful.
Cheers!
Rod.
Are you kidding? I'd be amazed if some of the "baristas" at my local Starbucks could even count to 17! The art of coffee making is lost on most of them.
This is almost identical to a wannabe's 'invention' on Dragons Den not so long ago......all the Dragons said 'I'm out'.
The reason they all backed out was:
1.It won't make money
2.It takes away the human element
3.It cannot be patented, and therefore anybody can do it, and will do it, leading to a horrible mess.
4.As for restaurants, people tend to know what kind of food they want to eat that day, and wouldn't browse pages of reviews/menus to decide what they want.
The reason they all backed out was:
1.It won't make money
2.It takes away the human element
3.It cannot be patented, and therefore anybody can do it, and will do it, leading to a horrible mess.
4.As for restaurants, people tend to know what kind of food they want to eat that day, and wouldn't browse pages of reviews/menus to decide what they want.
That's the nice thing about living in Seattle, people who really appreciate coffee know that you don't go to starbucks to get it. There are so many great coffee shops here that you can't go a block in a lot of neighborhoods without coming across a good independent coffee shop.
The downside is that after enough years in Seattle you become a coffee snob and have to complain as soon as you go a few miles out of Seattle and can't find a good coffee.
