“Apple has updated their Apple Store app to version 2.0 featuring EasyPay and Personal Pickup,” Jake Smith reports for 9to5Mac.
“EasyPay allows customers to purchase cheaper accessories in the Apple Store through the app, rather than having to deal with an Apple sales rep,” Smith reports. “Personal Pickup allows you to request an item to be purchased at a Retail Store through the app, and it will be ready within 12 minutes.”
More info in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Dan K.” for the heads up.]
downloading it now…
I’m surprised they set the bar at 720 seconds and not 666 seconds or 11.1 minutes.
Just because I’m a paranoid, untrusting dick…
How long before someone picks an item up, waves his smartphone over it, and walks out of the store?
Unless… Is there an RFID chip in the package? The Apple Store has to have some way to know that “this item has been purchased”, or else you’re just encouraging shoplifting.
——RM
Since the application works via shooting the barcode with the camera and this data is transferred to Apple servers, the company knows what exactly was bought. And RFID chips help to detect if items visitor tries to take out of the store are bought or not.
However, RFID chips are close distance thing, so even you are paranoid, untrusting dick, then still you do not have to worry about it once you leave the store.