Self-Purchase at Apple Stores Coming Soon
According to Boy Genius Report, Apple are going to be rolling out a new systems that allow you purchase products without having to go through an Apple Store employee:
Here is how this will work: after you find the item you want to buy, like an accessory, you launch the Apple Store app on your iOS device and there will be an option to buy a product in the store. You scan the product with the camera on your device in the app, click purchase, and it will charge whatever credit card is associated to your Apple ID. You then just walk out of the store.
Over the next few years we’re going to see a revolution in the way be buy things. We’ve seen it to a lesser extent with Starbucks but imagine this scenario:
I arrive at the airport terminal having cleared security and I get a notification that my favourite cafe has a shop here and it tells me if I order in the next thirty minutes I can get a discount. I order right that on the phone, paying. I go to the shop and pick up my order, by having the QR code associated with my order scanned.
No hassle. No waiting. Pure convenience.
60% of PSP Owners Plan on Getting a VITA
This is PR bullshit.
Sony are clutching at straws here. They’re being mauled by the fact that consumers are gaming on their phones or iPod touches. We’ve seen it with the 3DS. The VITA is going to be a flop.
As you might guess, I think that in the same way the MP3 player became redundant pocket space, so has the mobile gaming device.
