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A Perfect 10 (potentially… down the line)

February 17th, 2009

So Courtney Gaines, of the Telegraph’s “Gadget Inspectors” gadget reviews series rates the HTC G1 (the first Google phone) with a a 10/10 rating, citing capabilities that are theoretically possible in upcoming Android-based phones… what?!

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MS Retail: UR Doin’ it Wrong!

February 13th, 2009

Microsoft has recently announced that they will be entering the retail space with their own stores. Clearly they feel a need to compete with Apple’s success in their retail endeavors. But, in a seeming effort to remain depressingly consistent, they’re once again stealing from the surface and ignoring the treasures below.

AppleInsider published a piece covering the story, and included a couple of photos taken in a private 20,000 square foot mock-up retail store constructed on Microsoft’s campus.

The piece includes this wonderful photo, showing a customer that we can only assume is a PC, pushing a shopping cart around the store:

We can infer immediately from this photo that the people designing this customer experience seem to think that shoppers will actually be pushing a shopping cart around the store.

Think about that. Read more…

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