“Mobile payments may still be in the infant stage, but mobile devices — and especially Apple products — have become fairly mainstream at retail locations around the country,” Tricia Duryee reports for AllThingsD. “And there are more significant deployments underway.”
“Lowe’s announced last week that it was rolling out 42,000 handheld devices in the U.S. and Canada,” Duryee reports. “That closely follows announcements by Home Depot, Nordstrom and Urban Outfitters.”
Duryee reports, “While some of the retailers are a little shy about saying which devices are being deployed, for the most part they are using Apple products — an iPhone, an iPad or an iPod touch… It’s not just large retailers, either — small stores are also jumping on the mobile bandwagon.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Since84” for the heads up.]
I thought it wasn’t a good business machine because it didn’t have a keyboard wtf ? ?? ?
Just went to a cute little restaurant that used an iPad to make the reservations and texted us when our table was ready. It was on the north fork of long island.
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So if Best Buy adopts an iPod touch point of sake device, will it refuse the sale if the assistant punches in Samsung gear?
Actually, a point of sake device sounds kinda’ interesting.
A point of sake device will pour you a congratulatory glass of sake to celebrate the purchase of an item through an Apple device.
Sorry, you can’t do that. Bud Light already has the prior artwork and concept there, so you would be infringing on Bud Light’s patents, trade dress, and prior work.
At least according to Samsung.
Oh crap. Apple devices will be everywhere now. Time clocks, shipping scales, equipment automation, … Who are they going to sell those ultra low end PC to now?
Even the jet pilots and doctors are using and walking around with Apple devices.
I think this is the Apple tsunami! Run PC box makers RUN!!! (Steve Ballmer can’t run fast enough. He is a dancer. Microsoft is a goner!)
It always irked me back in the ’90s that all those Windows-based cash registers were counted as Windows market share.
But somehow I’m okay with iPad point-of-sales being counted.
I guess I’m a bit of a hypocrite.
No, you’re just being consistent. Take comfort in the warm fuzzy feelings you have for iPad Point of Sale devices.
The iPad Avalanche, Tsunami and World Conquest continued Creating a bigger halo than Balmer’s head shine on a moonless dark night.
iPad Rules the World.
Apple is the Oracle.
Who knew the unit of measure of iPads was a bushel? I wonder if Apple will report iPad sales numbers in those terms.
Well, if your from Maryland, a bushel is six dozen, give or take.
This is fascinating as regards Windows: most (all?) registers run a form of Windows, which counts as part of MS’s market share, and there hasn’t been any competition in this arena in ages. This has got to be causing Balmer et al some serious loss of sleep!
No wonder the self check-out at Fry’s grocery stores is so slow!
I was at a restaurant in Quincy Market, Boston yesterday. They used iPads as well.
I use them at my store, using Square as the App.
Also Neiman Marcus has a test pilot of using iPads and iPhones
Who the hell ordered cash dispensers requiring hardcore antivirus protection? I’m waiting for ATMs to get the iOS/OS X treatment.