Only in the UK. I’ve been waiting a year and a half to hear that, when not being used in context talking about a price-hike, and boy does it feel good. The capital of customer service and ludicrously expensive lattes, Starbucks, now lets net-connected web-browsers order their drink direct from their laptop, sat down on the otherside of the café, without having to leave their seat (and their laptop) alone. Although clearly designed only to ‘remind’ users they should be handing over their money to the coffee-giants, I can’t help but marvel at the simplicity of such an effective scheme.

- Users (I mean ‘Customers’) stay topped up.
- Starbucks increases profits.
- No waiting in line.
- Just ordering online.

Plain and simple, I love it. Coffee on demand… Seeing as you can now get yourself music from iTunes in-store too, I can see ’starbucks spawn camps’ popping up all over the UK. Coffee (caffeine for late nights), iTunes (to keep you rolling), net connection (the lifeblood of the operation) and a shop fully of hippy-geeks smells like trouble. Just wait till someone dubs it ‘Coffee 2.0′ and then we’ll officially know it’s safe to jump of a cliff and not just an irrational, premature thought. In all seriousness, buzz-words are driving me mad. Let’s just stick to ’spiffy’ and ‘phatty’ for now. Double posting today for no particular reason - and the possibility of a few product reviews coming up, aside from the iPod Touch. Stay tuned!

via CrackUnit