Quickorder app would keep iPod touch owners hooked on Starbucks

You're already well aware that Apple and Starbucks are buddy-buddy on at least some level, but this application would really cement their friendship. Quickorder, as you can probably imagine, would enable iPod touch users to swing by their local Starbucks, order up their favorite drink and avoid a good deal of that always questionable human interaction. Granted, what you're peering at above is still a mockup for now, but it's brimming with potential, no? Hit up the read link for lots more pics.

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[kawaiipikachu @ Feb 16th 2008 5:38PM]

Um ok .
Why the need .

[rusty771 @ Feb 16th 2008 5:42PM]

so you can order WAY fast plus that way you can also be really anti social :)

[Jamma @ Feb 16th 2008 7:26PM]

The sad thing is that Job's didn't put MMS in the iPhone because he said it was a gimmick that no-one used...

[Bloobie @ Feb 16th 2008 8:34PM]

Jamma: what is your point? This app (concept) does not use MMS, nor would it need to to send an order. It generates a semacode tag to be read by a barcode scanner.

[ethana2 @ Feb 16th 2008 10:18PM]

Digital information is /so/ much more flexible than analog.

What, you think you'll have to quick order more than once for the same thing? *save order*

Hit one button and you've got your drink coming. You don't even have to speak english.

[Ethan @ Feb 17th 2008 12:10AM]

To make you look even more pretentious.

[Andy K @ Feb 17th 2008 5:16AM]

Uh, dude. I'm like a coffee addict - there is ALWAYS a need! Quick coffee is good coffee!!

[Abuzar @ Feb 17th 2008 4:49PM]

Bloobie, you are thick aren't you? His point is that this app is WAY more of a gimmick than MMS. Steve Job didn't include MMS on the premise that MMS is a gimmick, but they decide to release this, which happens to be a bigger gimmick.

[Gil @ Feb 17th 2008 8:39PM]

Abuzar: "Steve Job didn't include MMS on the premise that MMS is a gimmick, but they decide to release this, which happens to be a bigger gimmick."

Apple has nothing to do with this.

They didn't 'release this', as you so stupidly claimed, and the guy who made the mockups didn't release it either. (Mockups are made-up drawings of something, they're not real, they're made in Photoshop, etc.) - understand yet?

Learn to RTFA. That's short for *READ THE FUCKING ARTICLE*. Or at least the summary. Don't jump into knee-jerk reactions just because you have a hate-on for Apple.

[Abuzar @ Feb 17th 2008 9:49PM]

I was just explaining what Jamma meant.

I don't hate Apple, I hate their over-priced mediocre products.

[Panathas17 @ Feb 24th 2008 1:37AM]

so that one day, the iPod Touch / iPhone will make coffee itself...

[Paul @ Feb 16th 2008 5:44PM]

Perfect if you are really anti social and want to avoid as much human contact as possible lol

[iPriest @ Feb 16th 2008 6:37PM]

Who doesn't want to avoid fake social human behaviour?

[ethana2 @ Feb 16th 2008 10:18PM]

I'm busy. I don't have time to cope with your spanish accent.

[YacozA @ Feb 17th 2008 1:20AM]

Spanish accent?

i don't know what starbucks you go to, but at mine they speak perfect American, and i live i canada

[9o9 @ Feb 19th 2008 1:36PM]

Sounds to me like priest doesn't have much trust in social interaction being a real thing. How can you say talking to someone isn't real? You'd have to be pretty stuck on yourself to think there aren't other conscious people out there, maybe taking your order for coffee.

[Michael Ishigaki @ Feb 17th 2008 4:43AM]

Hehe, that's the direction technology goes. ;) But you have to admit that this program has some snazzy graphics.

[sanford @ Feb 17th 2008 4:46AM]

michael ishigaki - technology doesnt like human communication!

[Raheem @ Feb 17th 2008 6:13AM]

YacozA, it's called English, thank you very much.

[James @ Feb 18th 2008 9:15AM]

@Raheem:

There's no way anything which gets spoken in the Americas is connected to anything that came out of England.

[EEaudio08 @ Feb 16th 2008 6:29PM]

i'm no starbucks pro, but two "pumps" of maple syrup sounds not so good in coffee.

[Jason @ Feb 16th 2008 8:41PM]

It's a Caffe Latte... good stuff. Even someone like me, who mostly drinks black coffee, has to appreciate some of the foo-foo drinks they have.

[guerro @ Feb 16th 2008 6:02PM]

You aren't the only one. That is why they discontinued the maple syrup about 6 months ago.

[Senor_Tom @ Feb 16th 2008 5:46PM]

can free up staff for making stuff and serving others, seems cool. if they can make a system to know who ordered from where would be even better. I can see this kind of this becoming more common.

[Syntax Error @ Feb 17th 2008 4:30PM]

Because everyone has an iPhone, right?

It's not going to free up anything, this is just a dumb gimmick, but if you feel you must flaunt that shiny little phone even further, at least I won't see you in the store for too long.

[Andune @ Feb 16th 2008 5:47PM]

Now if only Starbucks would come to Sweden...
Oh and iPhone too.

[redlukas @ Feb 16th 2008 7:04PM]

isn't there a single starbucks in sweden?

[Andune @ Feb 16th 2008 7:50PM]

Not a single one...
And thats strange cause im sure at least 80% of the adult Swedish population would become insane if they didn't get their coffee every day.

[Alexander @ Feb 16th 2008 8:03PM]

Dude. You don't want it. Overpriced crappy coffee.

No, really. It is bad.

People just drink it because they are too lazy to brew their own good coffee. It started out as a hipster thing, where only the cool people did it up in Washington... But now it is just so god-awful. I know I am getting modded down for this, but I need to get this out there.

STARBUCKS IS BAD COFFEE.

[Andune @ Feb 16th 2008 8:08PM]

It's not "overpriced crappy coffee".
Just because there isn't one here in Sweden doesnt mean that i havnt been to a Starbucks.
We have airplanes and things like that too you know.

[Alexander @ Feb 16th 2008 8:51PM]

What I am saying is, for as much as you would spend on a cup of coffee there, you can buy a pound of really good coffee and make gallons of it yourself.

That is why it is really bad coffee. It tastes good. And they sometimes use high quality ingredients. But they just mark everything up 1500% and I for one don't want coffee that much.

[Andune @ Feb 16th 2008 9:22PM]

Yeah it would probably be cheaper to make all the coffee for myself, but when im outside my house i dont allways carry a coffee machine on my back (^_^).

[Seoultrain @ Feb 16th 2008 9:56PM]

French press FTW

[still sdh @ Feb 16th 2008 10:19PM]

iPhone with Pressbyrån-support, hah.
(I don't expect anyone to get this)

[trevor @ Feb 17th 2008 3:25AM]

I second the Starbucks rap. It's amazing how coffee tastes when it's not cremated.

Starbucks = good coffee is like McDonalds = good hamburgers. Once you have the real stuff, it's hard to go back.

[Jakob @ Feb 17th 2008 3:52AM]

In Scandinavia we don't even have one single cofee shop, we only drink water (and the Swedish people drink beer)

[ScooterDe @ Feb 17th 2008 6:00AM]

Starbucks isn't about coffee. It is a confectionery shop using coffee as a base. Cream, maple syrup, flavor 'shots' and oversized servings are slowly killing their customers. It's as bad for you as a regular big mac diet and it is certainly overpriced. Other cafes make good coffee and some even provide convivial surroundings. Starbucks strips variety from neighborhoods and - together with other franchised and branded shops - makes for a dull landscape.

[JB87 @ Feb 16th 2008 5:48PM]

Where's the fun in this? You can't annoy the barista by ordering a "large"!

[guerro @ Feb 16th 2008 6:04PM]

And you can't annoy the barista by talking on your cell phone while trying to order. Effing cell phone A holes.

[Brian @ Feb 16th 2008 6:40PM]

I like to point at the cups and say "that size".

[nxtiak @ Feb 16th 2008 7:08PM]

Haha yep, I love saying small, medium, large (if and when I do go to a Starbucks, which is pretty much never).

[Jeff @ Feb 17th 2008 12:41AM]

Everytime I go to Starbucks and order their fancy named sizes it makes me cringe.

[π @ Feb 17th 2008 4:01PM]

Actually, if you use their sizing system, technically you can order a short, which is actually smaller than the smallest one on display. :)

[boydston02 @ Feb 19th 2008 6:27AM]

@TT,
yeah, I used to refuse to use their nomenclature (thinking it was rediculous). Then I discovered there are actually two cup sizes smaller than a tall (a short and "a little shot cup").

[caramelzappa @ Feb 16th 2008 5:52PM]

Nice way to cut in line.

[ethana2 @ Feb 16th 2008 10:20PM]

Waiting in line? Whatever.

[Pancake @ Feb 16th 2008 5:54PM]

Wow, I understand sites being a few days behind with news, but this was all over the net a month ago. http://gizmodo.com/343686/iphone-starbucks-ordering-screens-look-like-the-real-thing-precede-apple-patent

[Dustin Leiblein @ Feb 16th 2008 6:06PM]

I would use the Notes part to pick up hot baristas. :P

[trevor @ Feb 17th 2008 3:30AM]

I could see it now: "Hey, that's a hot little iPhone app you've got there... now here's something even hotter to wrap your hand around, cuz if you think you're in my league, you're delusional. I'm not afraid to talk to people."

(as you're walking away, under her breath)
"Creep."

[Matt @ Feb 16th 2008 6:10PM]

Might be cool if I owned an iPoo Touch and went to Starbucks.

But because I don't, I'll continue drinking my own coffee that doesn't taste like shit, and isn't made by assholes.