iOS sightings: the future of food ordering

Following up on my last post about the iPod (and by that I mean all iOS devices) being an “anything device,” New York’s JFK and LaGuardia airports now feature iPad-based food ordering systems with a custom menu application.  The food gets delivered to you or something, but you know what? I don’t care.  If I’m going through the airport and I see a chance to use an iPad, I’m much more likely to approach than if there was the friendliest order counter you’ve ever seen.  People love iOS devices, even if they don’t know what they do.

Granted, a few years back I thought this would be done with Microsoft’s Surface, but $500 (or less) portable iOS devices generally win out over $15,000 boxes the size of a desk (do Surface units still cost that much?  I haven’t heard any updates in a while.)