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Styluses for iWhatevers have been around for ages anyway. It's an optional accessory and doesn't do anything your finger can't do so there's no way the evil devs can force you into buying one.
The reason they're using it here is because it's a hell of a lot easier to write your signature using a facsimile of a pen than your finger. #ipodtouchpos
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We've all see the stylus things online but I wonder if apple adopting (maybe even making) one points to bigger things down the road. #ipodtouchpos
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Its the same thing for a tablet. A lot of the discussion on the tablet has centered around the what the input was going to be. How the keyboard was going to look, etc. I'm saying I find them including a stylus interesting in that regard. The stylus input was often rejected because its a step back but maybe not. #ipodtouchpos
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You have to have a stylus for signatures. You have to have a stylus for handwriting input. If you want a tablet the only way you can make it work is with handwriting input, just that simple. #ipodtouchpos
11/03/09
but then again this whole conversation is about a gadget whose existence itself has been denied again and again
PS the iPod Touch screen in this POS device has not been modified, but the stylus is special in that it conducts your body's static electricity onto the screen #ipodtouchpos
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If you follow the arguments on the comments you'd see that the whole stylus thing has been largely discounted because apple is moving past that with the capacitive screen. The capacitive screen doesn't work like the resistive screen does with a stylus.
A software keyboard is pointless on a tablet. A hardware keyboard is beyond pointless on a table (get a netbook at that point). #ipodtouchpos
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Thanks for playing though. #ipodtouchpos
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Obviously, I'm not Don Draper. #ipodtouchpos
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What did you expect, customers would sign with their fingers? #ipodtouchpos
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Well, actually, there are some Apple fanboys who do demonstrate most of the characteristics of cult followers, but yes it was a joke. #ipodtouchpos
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they NEVER look anything like an actual signature. they prove nothing. #ipodtouchpos
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Signatures don't really matter period. If you dispute it they're just going to say "well it was signed". Which doesn't really matter either because you'll win the dispute 9 out of 10 times anyways. #ipodtouchpos
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:P #ipodtouchpos
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@nutbastard: Seems like a step backwards for apple... circa 1994 Motorola MicroTAC #ipodtouchpos
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Apple gains quite a bit in this whole deal. The EZPays they've been using are unreliable and slow. An Apple-designed device with custom Apple-designed "Point Of Sales" software should make things go a lot smoother for the whole checkout process. Not only that, but now you've got Apple employees showing off the widening capabilities of an Apple device from right within the transaction. Running POS from off of your own company's device, a PMP by design no less, is pretty impressive if you ask me, especially to the average customer.
also, what do you mean when you say, "Trying to interface something like this would be a pain"? interface what? how? why is it a pain? or did you just mean implement? -anyway, not important.
my point is, I think it actually adds quite a bit to Apple's retail "experience" as they want customers to see it.
edit: after re-reading your comment...
Nobody said anything about Apple trying to sell this to other companies. now your interface comment makes sense to me (as in other companies getting this apple hardware/software to interface with typical windows-based POS terminals - I got it now). Apple's intent here, as I understand it, is simply to use these in their own retail stores.
also, as an interesting note - there are a few mac-saturated POS systems available that actually find pretty good use in a lot of stores. The most Apple-flavored of them all, perhaps, being LightSpeed.
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</sarc> #ipodtouchpos
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hey apple, take your own hint. #ipodtouchpos
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sonofa... ok ok fair 'nuff, but like, still. #ipodtouchpos
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How else would you propose we sign our names? #ipodtouchpos
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...even if it is fat and kinda fugly... #ipodtouchpos
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