http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/ Engadget Comments for Adafruit is in the Square payment pilot, awesomeness will likely ensue 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/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/1) verifone already has this product
2) this thing looks flimsy as hell
3) would you give your credit card to a random dude with an iphone instead of a proper payment terminal?]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/1: so?
2: yeah, probably will be cheap.
3: drug dealers, farmers markets... idk.]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/I'm sure drug dealers are dieing for a way to leave a massive paper trail like they would using this thing]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/I know it's a beta unit, but the whole concept is flawed. this is what it should have looked like: http://www.paywaremobile.com/]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/-1 because of your pic!]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:30PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://bit.ly/squareup-by-jack-dorsey-best-or-worst]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/this is passing through my engadget.com/exclude/apple/]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 3:52PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
the dongle looks like crap because they want it to fit every device android phones as well. if they made it fit only one device where is the money in that. also that little crap dongle will cost them nothing to make and thus allow them to give them away to intise you to buy the mobile app, keeping the entire cost next to nothing.

the item that company has will cost over $100 and only fit the iphone who do you think will win the race? cheap and available to all phones & platforms, or expensive and only available to one platform and phone?]]>Feb 25th 2010 4:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/No, this is what it should have looked like. Apple employees have had these in their stores for months.]]>Feb 25th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/03/exclusive_look_at_apples_new_ipod_touch_based_easypay_checkout.html]]>Feb 25th 2010 4:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/09/11/03/exclusive_look_at_apples_new_ipod_touch_based_easypay_checkout.html]]>Feb 25th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 4:53PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
Oh, and this is just for the iphone right? Fail.]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
For those that already have one, that's great, but the many, many more retailers who don't? It's cheaper to buy a traditional credit card reader or USB credit card reader for your POS (Point of sale) computer or laptop for much less.]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
For those that already have one, that's great, but the many, many more retailers who don't? It's cheaper to buy a traditional credit card reader or USB credit card reader for your POS (Point of sale) computer or laptop for much less.]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:44PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/this one is what you are talking about:
http://www.paywaremobile.com/]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 5:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
As a business man, this is one product I am looking at. Verifone is the other. Great for service businesses that make house calls like pizza delivery, carpet cleaners, handyman and so on. Convenience for both the client and business sounds like a win to me]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:25PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
I order pizza with a credit card already. I give the dude my card info over the phone and sign a reciept when he gets to my door.

So now you need a car and an iphone to be a pizza delivery boy? Stay in school kids.]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
In addition, the card processing companies give lower transaction fees for card swipe transaction versus card not present transactions. So, you can keep you cave man style card processing and my customers will enjoy convenience.]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
Yeah I can write with a pen and paper too. Does that mean it's the best way to communicate?]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Where do they get off, using their business to help people in need? Buncha jerks!]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:39PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 2:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
Guess it's never going to come to the UK anyway where Chip and Pin is required by Visa and Mastercard. ]]>Feb 25th 2010 2:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://bit.ly/bgreensq. Drop us a line if you're in Boston and want to check it out.]]>Feb 25th 2010 3:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 3:42PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 4:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/Feb 25th 2010 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suica#Mobile_Suica]]>Feb 25th 2010 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/25/adafruit-is-in-the-square-payment-pilot-awesomeness-will-likely/
See for yourself: http://www.spartadata.com
direct link: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/billing-credit-card-terminal/id326255801?mt=8

Do not always buy into all the buzz - good solid solutions await - just take your time and look around before you decide to buy into any particular service / app.

Lastly note that square will require you to use them as the provider merchant services and all locking you in to whatever fees and rates they will have while Billing simply requires a gateway account with Authorize.net being the most widely used gateway in the US. Merchant account transparent - cant be bad to have open merchant option for an app like this...

just my 2¢
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This tech is way outdated.

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