Why Starbucks Sucks--Coffee Taste part 1/2 (background)

Coffee-most consumed beverage behind water in the USA and second most widely traded item behind oil. We live on it.

And yet the coffee environment/community is being corrupted. Well at least, changing for the worse and it HAS changed for the worst since 1971.

When Starbucks was founded.

I have been ridiculed, well more like questioned but to me it feels like I'm a heretic for hating Starbucks. People don't understand, and actually that is part of Starbucks fault too...So many reasons. Today I'm going to just go over the taste of their coffee, not their service or employee/acquaintance treatment or even the average Starbucks customer 'sigh'.

First of all, their coffee is burnt.
If you can't tell that their coffee is burnt, do you really consider yourself a real coffee connoisseur or a person that wants the best coffee possible? This could go into the average Starbucks customer, but I don't want to do that.

"Oh NO! Why would Starbucks EVER burn there coffee? (uh what does that even mean, I mean my frappuccino is cold...not burnt..)"

Don't get me started with their "specialty drinks" either...

Coffee- it is a bean--well actually a seed, but I don't want to get into that either.
To get the delicious coffee taste--sips my cup of a little bit before full city roast--you have to roast the coffee. You have to get the perfect timing and temperature. Starbucks has +10,000 stores in the US alone, and they all get their coffee from one, single Starbucks roaster. The prime time to have fresh roasted coffee is 2-3 days after it is roasted, and that would be very hard for Starbucks to do. Actually, pretty much impossible.

Well how does Starbucks do it? They started to roast their coffee a little bit more.
Then more.
Then to today.

Their coffee is now so over-roasted, that those who may have never had Starbucks that may have always been visiting a local, not a large chain, coffee shop if they went to Starbucks, they would be repulsed by how it would taste. They would just throw it away and leave.

I wanted to do that when I went back a few weeks ago. I wasn't born a Starbucks hater. In fact, I use to praise them, there frappuchinos and macchiatos! (I will discuss specialty drinks in another article) I even had a gold card.

Then, I decided to pursue my coffee interest, my hobby. Now-I'd say passion.


Woah ok that was kind of long. At least for me typing. I'll go to the actual roasting reasons in another article.

Benefits of Moderate (3x/day) Coffee Drinking!

I wrote this a while ago for school, but here ya go!


https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AbKRR2trXoSmZGdkNHZrdnRfMGR3N2JxM2Nq&hl=en

Another Link

Margarita this is for you!

iPhone 5 rumor season

Well it seems like most of the rumors that have arisen from the Apple Device manufacturers have been increasing in the recent days, and one is the actual photo of this next-gen device. It looks a lot like the iPhone 4 and doesn't seem to have many large improvements beside a larger 4" screen. Although there is something like a dual-core A5 under that. Are you going to upgrade?

iPhone 5 yay?

Well it looks like many in the tech community, including myself, assume that the next generation will not feature some of the previous rumors such as NFC (Near Field Communications), a complete redesign, 4g, or a little bit better display. The assumptions are the iPhone 5 (or 4g, 4gs?) will just incorporate a better processor, the A5(dual core), an 8 mega-pixel camera, and possibly some more RAM.

No Redesign
No NFC
No 4g
No better display

I really hope this doesn't happen. Although last year's iPhone 4 was completely redesigned and significantly updated, I want another significant update! I mean who doesn't? I guess the Androids can stick to there NFC Angry Birds......

Saving Battery On Your iPhone (or iPod Touch)

I just posted a really detailed article giving tips/tricks for improving your battery life to get through the day! Check it out.

http://www.fixya.com/FBThreadView.aspx?msgid=16120098&siteid=4

iPhone Next Gen Tech--Displays

Well, recently many patents and rumors have surfaced about the next generation, or any future generation, iPhone. And some are very interesting. The possibilities of these technologies are amazing- mostly in entertainment and media
One rumor is that the outside frame o the iPhone (AKA the bezel) will be a display itself. What could this do?

• When playing a video, instead of having disrupt the video by touching the screen to change volume and using the pause/play button, you can possibly just touch the outside and change the volume or pause or play the video.
• When playing a game, the controls don't have to be on the screen, instead they can be on the bezel so it doesn't interrupt the video of the game.
• Another possibility is that the home button may be removed and the bezel would either have a home button that could change locations or buttons that would appear at certain times.

Another display patent/rumor that has surfaced is a dual eInk/regular display. Kindle has eInk technology, which is older, however it does have multiple benefits

• Easier viewing in the sun
• eInk is healthier and less irritating to your eyes

You would still be able to use the display normally however. Imagine if your next iPhone had this. Imagine it jailbroken. Yah.

iPhone 5---------not yet

Apple has a yearly refresh rate for mostly all of their products: iMac, Macbook, Macbook Pro, Apple TV, iPod, iPod Touch, and most importantly....the iPhone. The iPhone started in 2007 and has had a great refresh every year and last year was the biggest revamp of the iPhone. Some people are speculating that there may not be an iPhone refresh this year. No iPhone 5 in the next few months. 

Why? Because every iPhone has been announced at the WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) since the original iPhone. They announce things for developers. This year, at the WWDC, Apple will probably announce iOS 5 and also will probably release the next big version of Mac OSX, Lion. Lion integrates many of the useful features of iOS back into OSX. A happy median between computers and mobile devices. But this year there has been not enough evidence or rumors to suggest that Apple is ready to release the device this soon. You, probably like me, hope this article was a waste of time, because if not, a lot of iPhone owners are going to be very displeased.