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To: ctdonath2
Updating the app’s menu just becomes an adjacent step to updating & printing the standard menu. No big deal. Easier if you’re talking a chain of stores.

What app? Is there some Apple app out there that has even .001% of the country's restaurants' menus on it?

26 posted on 09/12/2014 3:35:13 PM PDT by Cementjungle
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To: Cementjungle

“Is there some Apple app out there that has even .001% of the country’s restaurants’ menus on it?”

Consider relevant precedents:
Facebook.
Twitter.
Google.
Yelp.
Amazon.
...and others.

Those services didn’t exist not long ago; today, they DOMINATE their sphere, knowing “everything”. Google went from nothing to a near-complete cross-reference of _every_word_ on the Internet. Facebook has 10% of the _world’s_ population as members. Twitter is huge. Amazon handles around 1% of USA retail sales. Yelp is huge. Etc. And each one has its own app...and is becoming integrated into the umbrella called iOS.

A great many restaurants already have their own apps, menus on line, allowing you to order & pay. If Apple doesn’t build such a service right alongside Pay itself, _some_ app will arise as the dominant aggregator of menus, notifying you upon arrival at a restaurant, showing the current menu, letting you choose, and handling the payment with just a finger touch. It’s just too darned easy, and profitable, and timely, to not happen.


27 posted on 09/12/2014 6:56:49 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (Solve problems, don't bitch about them.)
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