“On a recent morning at my corner café, I ordered two Americanos (they were out of drip) and a flaky, buttery calorie bomb of a pastry to start my day,” Marcus Wohlsen reports for Wired. Across the counter, a barista handed me the iPad she had just used to swipe my debit card. I tapped ‘$1’ for a tip and hit ‘no receipt.’ And we were done.”
“In that moment, I had just paid for coffee on the same kind of device I use at home to watch Mad Men, page through pictures of my kid, read The New York Times and video-chat with my dad,” Wohlsen reports. “Can your cash register do that? Daily life really didn’t used to be this way.”
Wohlsen reports, “Between 2011 and 2012, the number of ‘mobile point-of-sale’ terminals registered by businesses worldwide more than doubled, according to U.K. industry research firm Timetric. The newly released report doesn’t see such a dramatic rate of uptake to continue year after year. But researchers do project that the percentage of checkout counters using mobile point-of-sale systems such as those offered by Square, ShopKeep, Intuit and PayPal will jump from fewer than one-fifth last year to nearly half by 2017.”
Read more in the full article here.
Related articles:
Apple is killing the cash register – March 22, 2013
Attention shoppers: Why Apple’s iPad mini may be the retail world’s new best friend – November 9, 2012
Apple granted U.S. patent for point of sale system and more – October 9, 2012
Lowe’s equips employees with 42,000 Apple iPhones – September 8, 2011
Restaurants embrace Apple’s revolutionary iPad – December 29, 2010
Old Navy piloting Apple’s iPod touch-based Point Of Sale systems – December 2, 2010
a href=”http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/26742/”>iPads boost restaurant’s wine sales 11% – September 17, 2010
iPad-based point of sale cash register systems already deployed in Japan – August 31, 2010
Sydney restaurant replaces menus with Apple iPads – June 05, 2010
First look: Apple’s new iPod touch-based EasyPay checkout handhelds – November 3, 2009
Apple patent app describes wireless restaurant ordering from devices – December 27, 2007