Fire 90% of the teachers, replace 'em with computers that serve multimedia instruction, online tests, etc.

Khan Academy FTW!

Terrible. Bush would never have done anything like this. ;)

Then why aren't they walking into the shop and saying "Sell me a Nokia Lumia 900, dammit!"? Why not the same level of determination for a WP7 phone?

Blaming WP7's failures on every mobile phone salesperson all over the world is a cop-out.

Remember Windows Mobile? It powered several nice smartphones, especially models from HTC. Those sold very very well up until the iPhone took over. Did salesmen require bribes to sell those?

Or civilization for the past 5000 years...

I wanted to write a funny "rest in peace" message in LISP, but then I remembered that I never wrapped my head around that stupid language, and only passed my AI course by sharing code with a classmate.

Steve Jobs championed the notion that WE come first. His approach was karmic: if I build a thing that is good for you, then you will buy it from me. It's that simple. He didn't make billions selling your personal info to advertisers. He didn't make billions engaging in anti-competitive practices. He just made great stuff.

Now who's gonna remind the industry that user experience comes first?

Google? Your personal information comes first.
Microsoft? Derp derp derp first.

If Samsung succeeds with their intentions, then every 3G phone also violates their patents. They've successfully trojan'd 3G standards.

Not only would "apple store" plus "coffee shop" be hipster overload, but where you see "customers could interact with technology in a relaxed environment", I see "people spilling coffee on things"