“Google is getting physical,” Justine Underhill reports for Yahoo Finance. “The tech giant opened its first ever brick and mortar store in London. The shop will feature Android phones, tablets, and Chromecasts. Google also plans to hold classes on online security and coding.”
MacDailyNews Take: Sounds vaguely familiar, yet wholly inferior.
“Google plans to open two more stores later this year,” Underhill reports. “Google is also gearing up to hire a new CFO. The current CFO, Patrick Pichette, announced plans to retire from the company on Tuesday. Pichette is the fourth Google executive to step down in recent months.”
Read more in the full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: Do you have to consent to a full body scan and turn over all trackable personal data upon entrance or are those the conditions of being permitted to leave?
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I read “Google opens its first retail store” and jus below it said “No comments”
and I though “Exactly!”
lol
Googles is following microsft so close.
I suspect the Google Stores will be importing their crickets from the already amply cricketed Microsoft Stores, as well as their tumbling tumbleweeds.
sooo Google “Gurus”? Google “Smarties”, I prefer Google “Goofs”.
I wonder if they will follow M$ example and give away concert tickets to induce store traffic? 😀
Just swallow this micro-camera and come on in.
Free Jelly Beans?
No, no, no.. Lollipops.. 😀
Glass… My Ass…. In Your Face ERIC! You fckn’ MOLE. Worthless blather bag, THEIF!
Google retail store
Specializes in selling other people’s personal info
…with a full body and mind scanner at the entry.
“Google also plans to hold classes on online security and coding.”
Lesson 1: Don’t use Android. No security within miles of it.
A Google store. The Google NSA greeter welcomes in. Google NSA Genius remove all foreign spayware. Politely installs the lastest domestic Google NSA spyware. After leaveing the Google experince Store, Google watches over you in your daily life for any wrong doing so they may protect from yourself while amassing all the proof needed to convict you in any courtroom.
Another company without a retail product going in to retail. Why? I’d love to see the Business Plan on that. Under “Our Competitive Strength” does it list, “Because Apple is doing it.” and under “Value Proposition” is “Because Apple is doing it.”
Thieving scumbags are laundering yet another billion dollars in this latest tax write-off scam.
That’s a great place to buy the fantastic Google Glass, I bet.
Oops.
Can you use Apple Pay? hahahaha
Will a cash transaction be like Radio Shack – need your name, address, phone number, email address, log onto Google? Google stores generate their own buzz — drones!
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Our Lady of Perpetual Beta strikes again.
Like Google cares:
Google also plans to hold classes on online security and coding.
They just want to track you and sell you.
Google’s online security class syllabus:
“Buy an iPhone for malware protection.”
End of class.
15 comments and already on the second page?! page views are king.
LOL. It’s a concession in one corner of the Tottenham Court Road PC World, where the Phones4U bit used to be before they went bankrupt. Mostly sofas and a big clockwork sculpture.
This is not a store, it’s a showroom. Funnily enough it reminds me of the old Samnsung ones that all closed down recently.
I’d have to agree with that assessment.. I think it will be more of a showroom, but with added benefit of becoming a hands-on public site for testing new products and perhaps a developer education center..
They don’t accept credit card or apple pay…you just pay on the spot with personal data tokens and privacy breaches..
Their very first store! (squeal, clap, skip) I’ll be there with bells on.
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Google is holding classes on online security?
“Google also plans to hold classes on online security and coding.”
The makers of Android want to try and teach us about security?!?!?
Too many jokes flooding my mind . . . can’t . . . process
If there is both a Google and a Microsoft store in a mall, that would be good news for Radio Shack. They could claim to be the third least busiest store in the mall.
“Online security” sounds good, google. How can I secure myself from your fscking prying, you fscking bstrds?
Lots of titles in the malware section; and plenty of choices in the “buy one, get three free” section.
I suppose it will be the perfect place to trial the driverless cars in the consumer less stores. Health and Safety and all that.