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- Live Dispatch From The iPad Line At SF's Flagship Apple Store
- Hands-on with the Apple iPad: Groundbreaking Or Not, It's Still Amazing
- Square Turns Your iPad Into A Cash Register
| Live Dispatch From The iPad Line At SF's Flagship Apple Store | Top |
| The wait is already over in some parts of the country. But here in San Francisco, a huge line of people are braving San Francisco’s frigid morning to be among the first to receive their coveted iPads. In the interest of documenting the event for people who aren’t fortunate enough to have a flagship Apple store in their back yards, I’ll be live streaming the occasion using Qik on my Nexus One (note that even the sight of an Android phone may send some of these fanboys into a frenzy, so I’ve placed an Apple sticker over the Google logo). Top image by kylekirchhoff | |
| Hands-on with the Apple iPad: Groundbreaking Or Not, It's Still Amazing | Top |
| I just grabbed my iPad , dock, and case and I'm ready to start living in the 21st Century. Say what you want, but the iPad is clearly a new way forward in terms of user interaction and portability. In fact, I regret that I don't have a long haul flight to test this thing out on because this device may be the elusive missing link between full-bore laptop and underpowered netbook for which we've all been searching. On the whole, the iPad is nothing revolutionary: if you know iPhone, you'll know this thing. But Numbers, Pages, and Keynote, the office suite that isn't Office, is amazing on the iPad and iBooks are already a big hit around our house. Thankfully, Apple includes an A.A. Milne Pooh book for the kiddies. | |
| Square Turns Your iPad Into A Cash Register | Top |
| As a general-purpose tablet, the iPad can be many things to many people: an ebook reader, a wireless TV, a touchscreen videogame console. But to store owners and business people it can also be a cash register, with the right app, of course. Jack Dorsey’s Square , which is already available for the iPhone , now has an iPad app as well ( iTunes link ). Square comes with a peripheral credit card swiper that lets any store or business person take credit card (or cash) payments on iPhones, and now, iPads. It takes finger signatures on the touchscreen, generates email or SMS receipts, calculates sales tax, and comes with an online accounting dashboard to keep track of sales. (You can watch our video of how the iPhone app works). The iPad version is going to be appealing to many merchants because of the bigger screen and because it just looks more professional—more like some of the custom point-of-sale tablets you already see at some retailers today. But an iPad is probably much cheaper than some of those custom hardware systems, and Square’s payments software on the backend will keep getting better. Square can add new features without swapping the hardware. So while the iPad will mostly be a consumer device, it opens up some interesting new opportunities for businesses as well. Read our full list of the best iPad apps at launch here. CrunchBase Information Square Information provided by CrunchBase CrunchBase Information iPad Information provided by CrunchBase | |
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