Wallace?

@Mark C Baldwin II: You still find that funny? You're a lo-maintenance guy, aren't you!

@avi.weiss: Yeah, isn't it the case with copyright that if you don't actively defend it, you will lose your right to control it? Or was that ones registered trademark?

@KeyserSöze: You're talking about the concept of the UI, not the product that is the Macintosh. The OS is not the only thing that made the Mac a Mac. Just so you know.

@nootron:

@psychiccheese: Ah... sorry, vending machines in Japan look very different. I should've made that clearer. See the link above.

@balloondoggle: No, you just lack imagination. Read my comment above regarding display. Regarding the stocked items: with a traditional vending machine, you are physically limited in the number of products you can have on display at any given time. The trend has been to increase this number over the years as…

@psychiccheese: No, you have to change the display. It involves preparing a display sample, (or multiple of the same sample, because when you introduce a new product, you want to make it obvious by having 3-4 of the same thing in the display), opening the front glass part of the vending machine, which is harder to…

@leeit2me: Really? That's really all you have to look forward to for when you've retired? Sounds like a pathetic life to me :lol:

@takkun1946: Maybe because it's like 100% speculation? Just a wild guess.

@linuxpirates: Because with traditional vending machines, if you want to introduce a new product, you'd have to go to every single vending machine you own, open the machine, physically remove a product from display, and put in the new product for display. With this tech, you just send a picture of the new product,…

@Sven Neve: Close and Counters? What's that, some kind of home appliance flick?

Happy to report I've seen them all. Some, multiple times. As in, Blade Runner, 50+ times :-)

@Omitofo: Thanks, buddy.. I feel better. Perhaps I'll start reading it soon (that's right, I hadn't read it yet :-)

@david86: I/O! I/O!

I commend them. That commercial took some balls to make.

@complextinction: "but then again, most PC manufacturers are putting chiclet style on their laptops as well" which is because the MacBook (and later Pro) with chiclet keyboards sold so well :-)

I think these guys are still alive, right here in the streets of Boston.

@Pope John Peeps II: "only in the particular context of that book"