... including the revamped Metreon retail complex across the street, which now includes a scaled down City Target department store and a greatly expanded food court offering alternatives to the food options provided at WWDC.
How the mighty have fallen. The Metreon used to be called Sony Metreon, and it used to contain a large Sony retail store plus a separate Play Station store. It was supposed to be the first in a chain of Sony "urban entertainment centers." But it just didn't attract enough business. All traces of Sony are gone now. Replaced by Target and more restaurants in the food court.
Oh, and there used to be a Microsoft Store in the Metreon too. Closed after just two years.
Apple has started installing banners for next week's World Wide Developer Conference, featuring brightly colored squares and the tagline "Where a whole new world is developing.".
Isn't it obvious? They bought some of Kodak's patents and Apple is now getting into home film developing. That's a niche that even Samsung wouldn't copy. 8-)
Ideas are the cornerstone of all human accomplishment. Just for you and I to communicate about its value on this forum countless ideas through all human existence that had to be so powerful that they moved millions of people to shape into reality what had merely started off as a single electrical impulse in the brain. They are the heart and soul of what makes humans so unique in the world as we know it. We are only as powerful as our ideas.
Nice bum shot. (...and I realize this comment has other connotations outside the US)
It also has more connotations in the US. Every time one walks down the street the use of the term bum is more often about a woman's butt than a vagabond.
I love how the picture of the apple store in SanFran highlights some guy taking a causal stroll whilst smoking a cigarette. Great mood capturing
I'm not sure I'd call that a 'casual stroll'. I don't think he is going camping either. More like an existential meander through the underbelly of existence.
You can't be that shortsighted. How does a human purposely create something new if there is no catalyst for the result. That's an idea. It's doing is getting us to do.
I look forward to the new visuals - I love the multicoloured 'splash' and I can't tell you how glad I'll be to see the back of the blue/grey IOS system colour. I always found it so dour and depressing.
At least this is a decent slogan. The one last year (where great ideas go on to do great things) was pretty bad. Last time I checked an idea can't do anything.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
It can be stolen.
Samsung looks at more like "borrowing without asking."
How the mighty have fallen. The Metreon used to be called Sony Metreon, and it used to contain a large Sony retail store plus a separate Play Station store. It was supposed to be the first in a chain of Sony "urban entertainment centers." But it just didn't attract enough business. All traces of Sony are gone now. Replaced by Target and more restaurants in the food court.
Oh, and there used to be a Microsoft Store in the Metreon too. Closed after just two years.
That Target in the Metreon sucks. I went in there and asked the guy if they sell liquor and he told me it was in the back right corner. I get back there and all they had was wine.
Well, "A Whole New World" has to be one of, if not themost overused platitudes there ever was. It's almost as cheesy as "This Changes Everything."
So yeah, it could mean almost anything.
The only thing it says to me for sure is that Apple hasn't got much new in the advertising and promotion department if this is all they can come up with. The coloured squares on the invite and the banners are attractive, but since we already know they have nothing to do with the new look of the OS, they fill me with sadness also.
It all feels a bit tired and regurgitated to me. Almost, (dare I say it) … Microsoftian.
That Target in the Metreon sucks. I went in there and asked the guy if they sell liquor and he told me it was in the back right corner. I get back there and all they had was wine.
liq·uor
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Noun
Alcoholic drink, esp. distilled spirits.
A liquid produced or used in a process of some kind, in particular.
A liquid produced or used in a process of some kind, in particular.
Synonyms
drink - booze - liquid - beverage - fluid
Maybe it's just the people I know but if someone says liquor it's understood they specifically mean hard alcohol: vodka, whiskey, rum, etc. Just look at definition number 1 you quoted.
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I'm betting iOS will jump the river onto some previously OSX only form factors (a.k.a. "A whole new world" referencing Post-PC era.). Mark my word.
Originally Posted by AppleInsider
... including the revamped Metreon retail complex across the street, which now includes a scaled down City Target department store and a greatly expanded food court offering alternatives to the food options provided at WWDC.
How the mighty have fallen. The Metreon used to be called Sony Metreon, and it used to contain a large Sony retail store plus a separate Play Station store. It was supposed to be the first in a chain of Sony "urban entertainment centers." But it just didn't attract enough business. All traces of Sony are gone now. Replaced by Target and more restaurants in the food court.
Oh, and there used to be a Microsoft Store in the Metreon too. Closed after just two years.
Isn't it obvious? They bought some of Kodak's patents and Apple is now getting into home film developing. That's a niche that even Samsung wouldn't copy. 8-)
Originally Posted by cinder
pro tip: Apple didn't design or develop the WWDC app.
In what universe does that make any sense?
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Originally Posted by SpamSandwich
Nice bum shot. (...and I realize this comment has other connotations outside the US)
It also has more connotations in the US. Every time one walks down the street the use of the term bum is more often about a woman's butt than a vagabond.
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Originally Posted by Totems
I love how the picture of the apple store in SanFran highlights some guy taking a causal stroll whilst smoking a cigarette. Great mood capturing
I'm not sure I'd call that a 'casual stroll'. I don't think he is going camping either. More like an existential meander through the underbelly of existence.
You can't be that shortsighted. How does a human purposely create something new if there is no catalyst for the result. That's an idea. It's doing is getting us to do.
I look forward to the new visuals - I love the multicoloured 'splash' and I can't tell you how glad I'll be to see the back of the blue/grey IOS system colour. I always found it so dour and depressing.
New World ...Bleh sounds so 16th century
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Originally Posted by Rogifan
At least this is a decent slogan. The one last year (where great ideas go on to do great things) was pretty bad. Last time I checked an idea can't do anything.
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Originally Posted by Tallest Skil
It can be stolen.
Samsung looks at more like "borrowing without asking."
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Originally Posted by SockRolid
How the mighty have fallen. The Metreon used to be called Sony Metreon, and it used to contain a large Sony retail store plus a separate Play Station store. It was supposed to be the first in a chain of Sony "urban entertainment centers." But it just didn't attract enough business. All traces of Sony are gone now. Replaced by Target and more restaurants in the food court.
Oh, and there used to be a Microsoft Store in the Metreon too. Closed after just two years.
That Target in the Metreon sucks. I went in there and asked the guy if they sell liquor and he told me it was in the back right corner. I get back there and all they had was wine.
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Originally Posted by Andysol
… Or it means nothing.
Well, "A Whole New World" has to be one of, if not the most overused platitudes there ever was. It's almost as cheesy as "This Changes Everything."
So yeah, it could mean almost anything.
The only thing it says to me for sure is that Apple hasn't got much new in the advertising and promotion department if this is all they can come up with. The coloured squares on the invite and the banners are attractive, but since we already know they have nothing to do with the new look of the OS, they fill me with sadness also.
It all feels a bit tired and regurgitated to me. Almost, (dare I say it) … Microsoftian.
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Originally Posted by Totems
I love how the picture of the apple store in SanFran highlights some guy taking a causal stroll whilst smoking a cigarette. Great mood capturing
Either you are being ridiculously overly politically correct, or you can't see the forest for the trees.
It's not "a guy taking a casual stroll whilst smoking." You make him sound like an eighteenth century gentleman.
It's a homeless drug addict with a trash burger in his hand.
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That Target in the Metreon sucks. I went in there and asked the guy if they sell liquor and he told me it was in the back right corner. I get back there and all they had was wine.
liq·uor
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Noun
Alcoholic drink, esp. distilled spirits.
A liquid produced or used in a process of some kind, in particular.
Synonyms
drink - booze - liquid - beverage - fluid
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Well, "A Whole New World" has to be one of, if not the most overused platitudes there ever was. It's almost as cheesy as "This Changes Everything."
So yeah, it could mean almost anything.
It all feels a bit tired and regurgitated to me. Almost, (dare I say it) … Microsoftian.
Lucky for you, you won't have to wait long to find out what it means.
Oh wait, never mind: you've already decided it's tired and regurgitated.
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Originally Posted by Gazoobee
liq·uor
/?lik?r/
Noun
Alcoholic drink, esp. distilled spirits.
A liquid produced or used in a process of some kind, in particular.
Synonyms
drink - booze - liquid - beverage - fluid
Maybe it's just the people I know but if someone says liquor it's understood they specifically mean hard alcohol: vodka, whiskey, rum, etc. Just look at definition number 1 you quoted.