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this is about the user interface conventions and considerations which apply to creating software for the iPad platform (and touch-screen tablet devices in general). It is not a technical discussion of iPad-related APIs

"Revel Systems provides the new generation POS, the iPad connected with the receipt printer, cash drawer, and cardswipe"

Emily Chang is an award-winning strategic designer and co-founder and principal of Ideacodes, a web design consultancy in San Francisco focused on designing and developing next generation web products for companies, organizations, schools, businesses and individuals.

"Since their debut six weeks ago, the gadgets have enthralled the (mostly male) customers at Bone's. And to the astonishment of the restaurant's owners, wine purchases shot up overnight - they were nearly 11 percent higher per diner in the first two weeks compared with the previous three weeks, with no obvious alternative explanation. Other restaurateurs who are experimenting with iPad wine lists, from Sydney to London to Central Park South, report similar results. "

Android users are mostly guys. iPod touch owners are overwhelmingly young. And people who carry iPhones are way more likely to lust after an iPad.

I like to think that one of my more valuable contributions as an Omni employee is providing the lowest common denominator factor in usability testing. That is, when an engineer wants to really understand how a total Cro-Magnon will be using their app, they come to me.