Lots to discuss this week, including: Amazon selling groceries, Apple’s iPod factories, Bill Gates’ transition from MS to philanthropy, our first week with the DS Lite, moonlight movies at the Boston Harbor Hotel, and Apple’s plans for an Apple flagship retail store in Boston’s Back Bay.
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According to an exchange calculator, $50 US is equivalent to 400 Chinese Yuan. The government price of rice has been set at 1.4 yuan (16.8 cents) per kilogram. One figure I could find was that rice in the US was 20 cents/kilogram.
re: Apple sweatshops – I agree wholeheartedly that you can’t look at the situation with US-colored lenses. Yes it seems like a harsh work environment/poor compensation model, especially considering the recent exposes on places like Wal Mart, BUT you can’t judge it based on the US economy and style of life. A lot of overseas factories are now very strictly regulated and monitored, but because Joe American makes more per month at Taco Bell, doesn’t mean that Apple (or their vendors) are running a sweatshop.
re: Apple flagship – I can’t wait for it to be in Boston, and I’m as far from a new age hipster wannabe as you can get. You’d think that with the sheer amount of artists/graphics designers/musicians in greater Boston who help drive a lot of Apple’s PC sales, that a flagship store would have been here years ago. Now, if they would only extend the old iBook warranty issue to replace my logic board
That because new age hipsters don’t like like to drive mass consumerism.
It’s not hip enough for them. Maybe if the store advertised that all purchases were combined with an iPod loaded with the newest South Kreblakistan techno music then they would go for it. Hipsters like that stuff, right Colin?
Colin is a closet hipster
Oh and all the ones I’ve known don’t wear fancy jeans, it’s mostly corduroy.
“colin closet hipster” is, I think, an oxymoron
Oh, cords. Right, I will have to pick some up at the vintage clothing store on Newbury St.
See?! See?! Hipster bastidwq
Btw, there is this really great swedish metal band you should listen to. They are way underground. I mean, we are talking next to the earth’s liquid magma.
Actually, there is a great Swedish metal band made of 4 women named Drain Sth. I have two of their albums, and they are actually really damn good.
But nice try at a come back there hipster boy. Go make love to your iPod’s cordaroy case.
So, you are into underground, swedish metal bands? Sounds like a hipster to me.
No, because Drain Sth was fairly mainstream at one point. The album was reviewed in a skiing magazine and we all know hipsters are allergic to outdoor sports.
So, since BusinessWeek suggests students buy a Mac, does it mean it is no longer a hipster computer?
No. Hipster read BusinessWeek so they can attempt to sound smart when they have conversations about how unfair the world economic system.
Again, you lose.
Mac Hipster
Fine, I give in. I am a Mac hipster. Who cares, it feels so good.
Yeah, but there is a special level of Hell reserved for Hipsters.
REPENT!!!!!!
Catching up on the podcasts…listening to them on the T on the ROKR doesn’t really work. What was the whole “week 36 is half a year” nonsense?
Living proof that you can, in fact, just shuffle around during the wedding dance.
We do have peapod and like one or two others, don’t we?
Kozmo was not a grocery service. They did movie rentals and other random crap, including some food. God, I miss it, though. Seth and I had regular Saturday morning kozmo runs. We usually bought a dvd, got a half dozen au bon pain bagels and some cream cheese, and maybe some other piece of crap. I actually got both my and Emily’s GBA from kozmo.
Again, filthy goddamned heathens. I’m going to have to get real Haribo Goldbaerchen sent to me to make sure you know what I’m talking about. No chemical crap in them. Don’t send her the gummi bears if she’s in switzerland…they probably won’t let them in the country.
http://www.haribo.com/planet/sprachauswahl.html
I am not entirely sure how week 36 becomes half a year… maybe on Mars.
I ordered like… a candy bar, a sammich, and a DVD from Kozmo once. Free delivery rocked.
Funny footnote to Kozmo. In 1999 (iirc), one of the better-known financial mags published an article on Kozmo, saying that the founder was the new DotCom Wunderkind.
A year later, of course, Kozmo joined Pets.com as poster children for failed DotCom business plan bufoonery.
Except people besides you actually miss kozmo.
All the old stuff I wore as a child is coming back. Kinda scary and makes you feel old, but it looks great most of the time.
With the 70s and 80s back in style, I just loving vintage clothing from the thrift shops. You can find designers like Chanel and Armani for cheap there. Ebay is great too!