When Don first let me know about eXpresso for Starbucks Coffee I though it was an app directly from Starbucks. Turns out that Snow Storm Software created the app to help coffee newbies and connoisseurs design their drinks for the BlackBerry PlayBook. As if Starbucks was not already absurdly expensive you can tack on the relatively reasonable $1.99 cost of eXpresso to your next Starbucks order.
Keep in mind I like my coffee black , brewed, and Colombian so I don’t really understand the Starbucks addiction. Still the eXpresso app for the PlayBook seems kind of cool. It lets you dream up a new drink simply by clicking on the boxes on a simulated Starbucks cup. It will then convert your creation into “Barista Speak” which is the ridiculous language that the baristas speak at Starbucks.
Since most of you don’t have a PlayBook you can simply check out the description in App World until then. Its nice to see more useful and plausible apps showing up for the PlayBook. I could actually see Starbucks creating a similar app or licensing eXpresso when the PlayBook comes out.
PS: On a side note one of my favorite comedians, Dennis Leary, once said: Coffee doesn’t need a menu, it needs a cup! That’s all it needs! Maybe a saucer underneath the cup- that’s it!
babisboi ( View Profile) - Posts: 416
Posted: February 16, 2011 at 5:48 PM EST
Dennis Leary is a genius. Even if I had a PlayBook, I don’t drink coffee or expresso or anything like that.
Jay ( View Profile) - Posts: 1371
Posted: February 16, 2011 at 8:04 PM EST
Looks like another cool PlayBook app. Its good to see more news of apps for PB. With the incentive of a free PlayBook for developers who develop a super-app there should be some pretty cool ones on the horizon.
Terrence T ( View Profile) - Posts: 1828
Posted: February 16, 2011 at 8:48 PM EST from my BlackBerry 9800 | OS 6.0.0.450
How about a playbook next to the cup?
Daniel ( View Profile) - Posts: 577
Posted: February 17, 2011 at 10:34 PM EST
lol @ convert to “barista speak”…tall is a small, vente is a large, grande is a medium???
Ronen Halevy ( View Profile) - Posts: 3408
Posted: February 17, 2011 at 11:51 PM EST
I hate that crap. Was there something wrong with calling a medium a medium?
fubaz ( View Profile) - Posts: 854
Posted: February 21, 2011 at 10:58 AM EST
I thought all starbucks drinkers were apple users for the ‘lifestyle’ feel.
Daniel ( View Profile) - Posts: 577
Posted: February 22, 2011 at 12:32 AM EST
lol…what should we blackberry users drink instead?