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What’s unique about this vs the experience of a (hypothetically) rich person walking in to a department store where they have an account and saying “I’ll take t
by joshspankit 6y ago
What’s unique about this vs the experience of a (hypothetically) rich person walking in to a department store where they have an account and saying “I’ll take that, that, and that.” then walking out and knowing that it will be delivered to their house simply by virtue of the fact that the management know their face and their preferences?
- thaumasiotes 6y agoI can do you one better. I ate lunch at the same sidewalk restaurant in Shanghai almost every day for several months. I usually didn't order at all; instead, they recognized me, knew what I wanted, and brought it out without needing to be asked.
- joshspankit 6y agoI now have this dread that someone has already software-patented that. Something like “automatic ordering based on user recognition”
- Teletype 6y agoYes I agree. I am old enough to remember working on software before Amazon existed that had one click ordering. Never occurred to us that it was anything but bloody obvious, like 2 plus 2 is 4.... now theirs an idea.