The phone's built-in vibration capabilities and voice prompts provide user feedback and the UI learns toadapt its behavior based on users' preferences and usage patterns.
With its stock on a tear and a track record of continually proving the marketplace wrong with its ability toadapt, the California-based company has set and achieved a string of lofty goals.
Being ahead of the curve on new developments to retail such as mobile payments and app-based loyalty schemes also may allow Starbucks toadaptto quickly shifting consumer habits.
Tuning the design of the chip to match this specific application, but making it reconfigurable, means that phones based around the chip will be able toadaptto different network standards.
State high school athletic associations have struggled toadapt as school choice and the increased professionalization of youth sports has attacked their models based on kids playing games on the side as part of their rigidly drawn districts.