http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/ Engadget Comments for Square payment dongle demoed for iPhone toting hippies and you (video) http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
Billing direct link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/billing-credit-card-terminal/id326255801?mt=8]]>Jan 18th 2010 11:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://bit.ly/squareup-by-jack-dorsey-best-or-worst
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What you linked too, is just an app.]]>Jan 18th 2010 9:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:02AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/This is why resistive screens and Windows Mobile still have a place. There are all sorts of business applications which require precision. Windows Mobile devices can be built with built in barcode scanners, credit card readers, RFID readers, or anything.
I wonder if they can make a capacitive screen with enough sensitivity to detect a metal stylus when you are holding it. Not those huge ugly things but a normal sized stylus.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
Why not? It'd certainly be better and more accurate than 99% of similar machines out there that you'd use to sign your name when using a credit card.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
Its a touchscreen ... authenticate with fingerprint or iris scan, dammit.]]>Jan 18th 2010 3:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
@ethana2 Have you actually tried it? Even using the whole screen I couldn't get my signature near to a written version. If that's the case signing is useless, because you certainly can't verify it.]]>Jan 18th 2010 3:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
@lisagovan - how about you go take your little spamming scheme and rot in hell, will ya? Thanks, Everybody.
]]>Jan 18th 2010 5:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 12:49PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Right now the closest I have is PayPal..]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
"It's completely legit. Trust me."

*Creepy grin.*]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
Yea, I don't think Kevin Rose should be making his own investment decisions. This one clearly isn't going to swim.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/I don't see this thing going anywhere. I would never swipe my card on this if I were buying something from a garage sale, craigslist or some guy on the street. As for small businesses, there are already systems that they can set up to accept credit cards.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:56AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
you idiot, he was making a joke while giving examples of real world uses. ]]>Jan 18th 2010 4:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
They could have easily designed it so it wouldn't spin around by just adding some anti-rotation extenders on both sides. I'd just superglue some plastic supports if I had one.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:10AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:17AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:18AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:22AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
I'm simply pointing out the obvious risks posed by people actually using a product like this. Fortunately, this product will probably never be commercially successful, so we don't need to worry about being scammed with funky iPhone accessories.]]>Jan 18th 2010 4:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
It's the same risk you take every time you give your waitress your card at the bar... Stop being a Debbie Downer or I'll send you one for Christmas next year]]>Jan 18th 2010 4:23AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Send me what? A Debbie Downer?]]>Jan 18th 2010 4:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
I'd agree with this 100% - there is a ton of iphone security issues that this solution may require solving - the system has not been built for rock solid security that financial transactions require. Also, this thing would have to be bolted to a wall or something, we all know how robust iphones are when they hit the ground - with something like this you'd have to replace the screen at least once a month. That's just my two cents. Lastly, how big is iphone's mobile market share global or here in the US - it' still fairly small and with a slew of android devices that are about to hit the market i'd think that android would be a better way to develop this. Just my two cents.

As a side note, it seems that Apple has acquired iSlate domain name so we maybe able to put the discussion regarding the upcoming tablet's name to rest - http://ipad.org/apple-registers-islate-com-domain-name/]]>Jan 18th 2010 5:03AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
It is a great idea, I just don't see a lot of people trusting it quite yet.]]>Jan 18th 2010 1:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
I guess that makes it not news worthy in engadget...
Just follow the moneys...]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:33AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 2:39AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Actually, if you REALLY think about it, using paper isn't really essential anymore. With all the laptops, emails, facebooks, iPhones, and just all this technology, who even uses paper anymore?
The only time I actually pick up a piece of paper is when I need to write down notes, or math homework. But that could all be done on a tablet as well.

I think that school boards really need to think of some kind of program to start enforcing tablet usage. Hopefully the Apple Tablet will help out. Since Apple is always good at making things good and thin, that's exactly what people will be looking for if they were to go to class and takes notes. Or just write stuff down in general.

Sooner or later, most people will have iPhones or a phone that can do everything a iPhone can, and we'll be able to drastically cut down on paper/plastic usage. By plastic, I mean credit/gift cards. Since right now, you can pretty much already do that on your iPhone. And apparently, now you can write checks. neat.]]>Jan 18th 2010 3:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 4:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
Sounds as though you are taking an environmental line on this despite all the Apple love in your post.

Have you thought about the effects of powering a smartphone, tablet/netbook and laptop for everyone. That is the way things are looking.]]>Jan 18th 2010 7:27AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Im sure they could improve this dongle by making it so instead of signing, you just punch in your pin. ]]>Jan 18th 2010 4:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
And yes, I'm being sarcastic, but investing in an outdated technology just because it plugs into the current phone-du-jour seems like a bad idea to me.]]>Jan 18th 2010 6:50AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/
magnetic strips are over (in europe at least) we chip & pin here!]]>Jan 18th 2010 6:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 8:26AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 9:07AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 8:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 9:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/In the states there is a governing body for everything 'card payments' related called the PCI Security Standards Council. If they are doing everything the right way, their application will be secured so that a card # is never stored.

Atleast that is how most companies do it. My company does credit card processing software/solutions using a bluetooth card reader/printer. We also have it available across every platform/OS. http://www.chargeanywheredirect.com]]>Jan 18th 2010 9:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 9:40AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Hah! They could make ONE bluetooth reader that would work with EVERY Windows Mobile and Android device.]]>Jan 18th 2010 2:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/http://www.engadget.com/2010/01/18/square-payment-dongle-demoed-for-iphone-toting-hippies-and-you/Jan 18th 2010 12:25PM