New app will allow iPhone users to do self-checkout at Apple Stores

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 company’s 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 Apple’s 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 isn’t 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 Agnello did not own a position in any of the stocks named here. Follow him on Twitter at?@ajohnagnello?and?become a fan of?InvestorPlace on Facebook.