If they added in support for saving to Dropbox, Box, GDrive, etc. it’d be niftier, but there’d less of that pot of gold in the strategy. We’ll see how it shakes out.

Shopify announces iPad-centric POS system | TUAW – The Unofficial Apple Weblog

I’ve always thought that the iPad as POS disrupted was a delightfully unexpected disruption. It’s fun to see how Square, Shopify, and others are reinventing a really boring space who’s TLA is a pun’ish commentary on the quality of goods.

PoS Disruption

Local business owners take as a given that they need an ugly, slow, expensive and complicated point of sale system cluttering their counter.
–Square unveils new iPad stand dubbed Square Stand

The spread of iOS into retail/PoS is a great disruption story playing out right in front of us. The fact that they’re called PoS’s should have been the first clue.

hey, iPad!

The word press plugin in the ipad is all right.

Typing is kind of a pain unless you put it in landscape mode. Then i can see how i could learn to type this way.

Also the fact that his has red squiggly spell check is awesome. At least it would be if i could figure out how to use it properly.