Daniel Eran Dilger
U.S. retailer Urban Outfitters told analysts that was equipping all of its stores with iPad and iPod touch-based payment systems, and never buying another cash register again.
According to a report by Business Insider, the retail chain's chief information officer Calvin Hollinger said that equipping stores would iPad sales systems would save both space and money, and allow for more customer interaction.
Hollinger said an iPad cost a fifth as much as a conventional cash register, and can be installed to swivel around to face the customer, who can view the order, add their personal information, and perform tasks such as creating a gift registry.
When not in use, an iPad can be quickly detached, freeing counter space for inventory use or merchandise packing.
In addition to setting up iPads at checkout, Urban Outfitters will also be equipping sales people with smaller iPod touch systems, similar to those used by Apple's retail stores and an increasing number of other retailers.
The Philadelphia-based Urban Outfitters operates more than 400 stores under the brands Urban Outfitters, Anthropologie, Free People, Terrain and BHLDN.
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And the beat goes on... By the time Microsoft gets their act together and a tablet out the door, monkey boy will need a walker to do his dance.
I predict that we will live long enough to see the last desktop PC go dark. Many of us will be able to tell our grandchildren that we remember when people spent up to an hour traveling to a job in big building where everyone sat in tiny cubes and spent their time typing on keyboards while looking at CRTs and complaining about carpel tunnel injury and back and neck pain." Our grandchildren will look at us in awe and then ask, "What's a 'job'?"
"It's just a toy"
Uh oh. Wait for it...
And so it begins. I still think Apple should start their own bank.
Remember all of the ignorant fools who took offense to Steve Job's statement when speaking about the Post-PC era?
Well, as usual, who are the fools now?
iPads are taking over everywhere! Note that I didn't mention tablets, I mentioned iPads, because there is no tablet market, there's only an iPad market. People only buy iPads, virtually nobody (besides a few poor people and a couple of Apple haters) are buying the other junky and cheap, inferior, ripoff tablets.
The days of desktop PC's are over. Certain pros, businesses and content creators will still be using desktop PC's, but the average person, which means the majority of all people, will not be buying any more desktop PC's.
iPads are only going to become more and more prevalent while traditional PC's will continue to decline, as they have been doing for a while now.
As soon as the first iPad was released, I instantly knew that it was going to be a huge hit, and so did quite a few other people. Do you remember how many moronic fools were dissing the first iPad? These people are truly ignorant and they wouldn't recognize a revolutionary product if it landed right on top of their thick heads.