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I see iPads everywhere at smaller restaurants. Especially in food courts. I've even seen a few Android tablets (including at one upscale food hall in Plano, TX)

I see iPads everywhere at smaller restaurants. Especially in food courts. I've even seen a few Android tablets (including at one upscale food hall in Plano, TX). Not just restaurants, too; independent stores are picking up tablets at a huge rate. If a store has opened in the last three years or so, they're probably using a tablet as a cash register. Tablets are rapidly taking over the market for cash registers.

pjmlp 9y ago
Many of those tablets are actually running W10.
- Twisell 9y ago
  Sources?
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    Personal anecdote of what I see being sold on consumer stores here in Germany. Or the restaurants or cocktail bars that happen to have tablets instead of paper menus. They started with iPads, but as their chains got bigger they moved to a mix of Android and W10 tablets. Source, personal anecdote getting out of the menu app into the OS.
    - amyjess 9y ago
      I guess that's just a difference between Germany and the US (or at least Texas). Most of the tablets I've seen in stores and restaurants are actual iPad hardware, the virtual keyboard used when entering information is the iOS keyboard, and the Square app follows the Apple design guidelines. And the rare occasions when I encounter an Android tablet, I recognize it from the virtual keyboard. Case in point: the food hall I mentioned in my above post. When you buy something, it asks you if you'd like to enter your phone number so they can text you when your order's ready. When I chose to enter my number, I instantly recognized the keyboard for that as the Android 4.x keyboard.
    - Twisell 9y ago
      I agree in that iPad are being perceived as too expensive here in EU, notably because of the advantaging EUR/USD conversion rate that Apple don't really follow when it come to pricing it's product. On top of that shop owners tends to rely more on local vendors for cash machines, and many of those still heavily built atop of the Windows ecosystems. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if W10 surpassed Android for this kind of appliance. Here in France I often see waiters use device with old school stylus on UI with really small buttons. I'm not even sure what OS this is to be honest.
- JustSomeNobody 9y ago
  I'm pretty sure all the iPads I see are not. In all honesty, I can't recall the last time I saw a Windows laptop in the wild.
  - pjmlp 9y ago
    Come to Europe, Africa or Asia continents, you will see Windows laptops everywhere. Or as alternative go to a local games developer meeting group. There were plenty of them in San Jose at GDC, from what was shown on the live streams.
- pjc50 9y ago
  There's a lot of these about. The license cost reduction for "tiny device" (small screen, <=32GB flash, <=2Gb RAM) has caused them to proliferate. In some ways they're the real replacement for WinCE.

pjmlp 9y ago

Many of those tablets are actually running W10.

Twisell 9y ago
Sources?
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Personal anecdote of what I see being sold on consumer stores here in Germany. Or the restaurants or cocktail bars that happen to have tablets instead of paper menus. They started with iPads, but as their chains got bigger they moved to a mix of Android and W10 tablets. Source, personal anecdote getting out of the menu app into the OS.
  - amyjess 9y ago
    I guess that's just a difference between Germany and the US (or at least Texas). Most of the tablets I've seen in stores and restaurants are actual iPad hardware, the virtual keyboard used when entering information is the iOS keyboard, and the Square app follows the Apple design guidelines. And the rare occasions when I encounter an Android tablet, I recognize it from the virtual keyboard. Case in point: the food hall I mentioned in my above post. When you buy something, it asks you if you'd like to enter your phone number so they can text you when your order's ready. When I chose to enter my number, I instantly recognized the keyboard for that as the Android 4.x keyboard.
  - Twisell 9y ago
    I agree in that iPad are being perceived as too expensive here in EU, notably because of the advantaging EUR/USD conversion rate that Apple don't really follow when it come to pricing it's product. On top of that shop owners tends to rely more on local vendors for cash machines, and many of those still heavily built atop of the Windows ecosystems. In fact I wouldn't be surprised if W10 surpassed Android for this kind of appliance. Here in France I often see waiters use device with old school stylus on UI with really small buttons. I'm not even sure what OS this is to be honest.
JustSomeNobody 9y ago
I'm pretty sure all the iPads I see are not. In all honesty, I can't recall the last time I saw a Windows laptop in the wild.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Come to Europe, Africa or Asia continents, you will see Windows laptops everywhere. Or as alternative go to a local games developer meeting group. There were plenty of them in San Jose at GDC, from what was shown on the live streams.
pjc50 9y ago
There's a lot of these about. The license cost reduction for "tiny device" (small screen, <=32GB flash, <=2Gb RAM) has caused them to proliferate. In some ways they're the real replacement for WinCE.