Monday Apple Rumors — Check Yourself Out With Your iPhone

Here are your daily Apple rumors and AAPL stock news items for Monday: Apple
Store Gets iPhone Self-Checkout Support: Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL ) product owners
are slowly watching their lives become a specific ecosystem thanks to the most
famous company in Cupertino, Calif. The iPhone owner goes to work having already
had a meeting on FaceTime, then uses his MacBook to do business before going
home to make dinner using a recipe app on his iPad while listening to iTunes.
Now, according to a Sunday report at Mac Rumors , iPhone users also will be able
to check themselves out when shopping at the Apple store . The report says Apple
will release an app for self-checkout that will charge the users iTunes account
when they pay for items at the companys stores. Larger purchases Macs, iPads,
etc. still will require assistance from store clerks. More iPads Than Computers
at Schools in 2016: Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster conducted a survey of 25
school technology directors, and it appears according to a report at Apple
Insider detailing the results that the iPad will be a fixture in American
education by 2016. All survey respondents have either introduced or are testing
the iPad within their schools. None, meanwhile, have used or plan to use Google
(NASDAQ: GOOG ) Android tablets. These IT directors said that, as of now, there
are approximately 10 students to every computer in their schools. Within five
years, however, the directors expect there to be six students for every iPad in
their schools . Good news for Apple and its education supply business; bad news
for the future of typing skills. Next Version of Mac Operating System Already in
Testing: A Monday report at Mac Rumors (via 9 to 5 Mac ) said web logs of online
visitors at the website from Apples headquarters and the Silicon Valley area
already are testing Mac OS 10.8 . Apple just released the latest update to its
laptop and desktop computer operating system, OS 10.7 or Lion, this past July.
That version of OS X brought the operating system closer in line with the iOS
platform running on the iPhone and iPad. That the company is testing a new
version of its OS isnt surprising, but it is revealing. Industry commentators
have been predicting that Apple will shift to a single operating system for all
their products in the near future. These tests indicate that the OS X platform
will stick around for some time to come. As of this writing, Anthony John
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