Apple iPhone QuickOrder proof of concept for Starbucks, genius
Link: QuickOrder - GENOCO by Phil Lu
“Get your coffee fix, fast!” iPhone/iPod Touch application that allows the users to purchase their favorite Starbucks drink without waiting in line. This application also includes QuickPay, a swipe transaction system using semacode technology.
I picked this up via MacRumours. A smart chappy by the name of Phil Lu knocked up these screenshots illustrating how an iPhone/iTouch ‘QuickOrder’ application could work. It’s unfortunately proof-of-concept at the moment but I could really see myself using something like this. Nice work Phil!
Take a look…
First, you login at the shop front…
Then you select your desired coffee…
Then do a bit of customising…
Then you pay…
Complete with semacodes! I wonder what Noah and the team at Gomobo.com make of this — they’re basically doing this (albeit without the fancy iPhone graphics) across a lot of America already.
You know what? I just did a search on Gomobo and found that ‘Del Taco’ here in San Francisco are Gomobo-enabled. They are literally round the corner. Well I never. I’ll need to try it out.
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Posted by QuickOrder | Jonathan MacDonald.com on January 14th, 2008 at 10:28 am.I agree the iPhone example is nice, but it just amazes me that there isn’t more of this going on already - it seems so obvious somehow! Does anyone know if the barcode readers on standard tills can handle this as a payment method, or do they need another reader adding?
Posted by MarkW on January 14th, 2008 at 11:56 am.We’ve had the capability to do this for over a year on other phones - in addition we can tie in GPS for location/directions and Starbucks loyalty card information. Finally instead of generating a 2D barcode which requires new infrastructure we can generate a 1d barcode in real which can be read by all the current readers.
Cheers,
Peter
Posted by Peter Cranstone on January 14th, 2008 at 2:41 pm.I agree with you Mark, it’s very strange there’s so little development (apparently) going on in this space.
Posted by Ewan on January 14th, 2008 at 10:28 pm.