Posts by tzx4

Clinton defence of personal email server fails to placate critics

Let's face reality,

The only thing that would placate many of her critics is if she literally died.

Google to open flagship retail stores by end of 2013

a bit incomprehesible

Apple sells devices. A retail for them makes perfect sense.

Microsoft sells software, thus a retail outlet makes little sense.

Google sells its users' eyes and minds to advertisers. A retail outlet for google makes little or no sense, unless one envisions a whole store full of Motorola phones. chrome books and Nexus tablets. Maybe glasses and google cars in the future, but in any case, these devices are but a very tiny percentage of their profits. What does Google hope to accomplish with a retail presence? Perhaps I am dim witted, I just don't get it.

The Apple store I frequent happens to be within about 50 meters of one of those relatively rare Microsoft stores. The MS store has more than double the floor space, and at any given time there are less than 30% of the number of shoppers in it compared to the Apple store, scattered about, relaxed and quiet. In contrast, the Apple store resembles a raucous crowded bar.

Which of these two would one suppose a Google store might resemble?

There is an Apple imitator out there for whom a retail chain might make some sense, that would be Samsung.

Re: The car alone would be enough.

One has to ponder what kind of details about your personal life driving (passively sitting in ?) a Google car might just transmit back to its creator.