How Square Made Its Own iPad Replacement
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#2> OK, not really; streaming Netflix on something designed to be a point-of-sale-system is a terrible idea, worse than watching movies on a Linux-based in-flight entertainment system.
Is there a term equivalent to "suspension of disbelief", but for non-fictional writing? This broke mine. I don't know what Linux has to do with anything here.
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#3TLDR - Square made a PoS machine. It is an Android tablet(s).
Re: How Square Made Its Own iPad Replacement
#4> OK, not really; streaming Netflix on something designed to be a point-of-sale-system is a terrible idea, worse than watching movies on a Linux-based in-flight entertainment system. Is there a term equivalent to "suspension of disbelief", but for non-fictional writing? This broke mine. I don't know what Linux has to do with anything here.
"Exceeding one's license to hyperbole for the sake of maintaining viewership and having at least one inflammatory statement to trigger 'engagement'."
Kind of rolls off the tongue very much like how an uncoated tablet doesn't.
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#5> OK, not really; streaming Netflix on something designed to be a point-of-sale-system is a terrible idea, worse than watching movies on a Linux-based in-flight entertainment system. Is there a term equivalent to "suspension of disbelief", but for non-fictional writing? This broke mine. I don't know what Linux has to do with anything here.
It gives the reader some context. Many of the readers of this will have had the unfortunate experience of trying to watch an in flight movie on a Linux in seat entertainment system. Fewer will have used the Square POS system, particularly the new one.
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#6TLDR - Square made a PoS machine. It is an Android tablet(s).
Yeah, as much as I like long-form pieces on how a technology was developed, pretty much any company with capital can make an Android tablet nowadays. But "Company develops internal tech solution to reduce BOM costs & reliance on third parties" isn't as sexy a title.
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#7TLDR - Square made a PoS machine. It is an Android tablet(s).
I often notice that most things now are basically "Android tablets".
Those little machines popping up in restaurants where you can order/pay? Android tablets.
Have a relatively recent car? Got CarPlay? Your stereo is probably an Android tablet.
So this isn't too surprising. Instead of spending whatever amount of time trying to design and build an embedded system, along with basic OS, library, etc, you can just find an Android tablet that fits what you need and build off of that.
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#8Soooo they used Android? Unsurprisingly, it's cheaper when you don't have Apple's classic markup.
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#9Soooo they used Android? Unsurprisingly, it's cheaper when you don't have Apple's classic markup.
I think it was more a matter of total control, over the OS, the hardware specs, etc. They needed to provide a better turn-key experience for their users, including taking into account what long-term maintenance is like.
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#10"Square’s tablet has 16 gigabytes of flash memory but hardly any internal storage"
I am very confused by that sentence.