Google's Nexus 4 smartphone sells out in the US in 50 minutes
The fact that it is 2012 and stores still refuse to just let you give them money and then have them ship you a product is ridiculous. I don't want to sit here and wait for a store to open or for things to come 'back in stock' to buy a phone. That's why we invented computers, to automate boring tasks.<p>I give you money, you put my name on a list, as phones come in, you ship them in the order of the names on the list. Problem solved.<p>Of course, that won't happen any time soon, because being sold out inexplicably generates buzz like the present article.