| Replacing Humans with iPads at an Automated Restaurant Customers at Eatsa in the Financial District will order from an iPad, sending the order to the kitchen. When the meal is ready, it appears in a small glass compartment. The food is prepared by real people, but the patrons never have to see them.
This is the future of all fast food. It’s pretty rare to get good service at any fast food restaurant that I’ve been to in the US (with the notable exception of Chick-fil-A which is almost always pleasant), and the average customer would probably rather deal with an iPad than a person. I mean, most people’s faces are glued to a rectangle any time they are outside, so it’s a pretty fair assumption that this would become popular. Combine this with the growing list of cities requiring much higher wages for fast food companies, and it won’t be long before it all becomes automated. Once a major fast food chain develops the software required, the hardware ends up being a one-time cost that won’t need to be upgraded for years. Apple Pencil vs. Wacom Cintiq Currently the Wacom Cintiq is regarded as the pinnacle of professional drawing stylus/surface design. A lot of hesitation (or dismissal) of the Apple Pencil seems to stem from people’s belief that Cintiq is superior in performance and design at a similar price. *sigh* Quite plainly, the Cintiq sucks in comparison. And I’ve been using them for years for industrial design sketching, UI, and art.
While we haven’t used the Pencil in person yet (Apple is very picky about who gets to come to their announcement events and we aren’t well-known enough to go), the demos and all of the information we’ve seen make us think that this might be a stylus that really breaks out from the lousy competition. There are a couple of things that make working with a stylus on the screen feel weird and unnatural: the first is the latency, a slight delay while you are swiping the pen across the screen that tells your brain that it isn’t real. The second is the distance between the tip of the pen and where the actual color shows up — it’s like the ink shows up on the other side of a pane of glass and it’s just not a natural experience. And the last thing is what happens when you tilt the pen slightly to the side, and we’ve never seen a third-party stylus that does a good job with that. This is where the Pencil will (hopefully) solve these problems. The refresh rate is dramatically higher than any third-party device, the screen technology makes it look like you are really touching the pixels, and tilting the Pencil results in what you’d expect from a pencil or other drawing device. | 
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